Gender and the Japanese State

Pension Benefits Creating Difference

Bibliographic Data

ID2582005
AuthorsNancy Rosenberger (corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume64
Issue4
Pages178
Publication date1991-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3317211
OpenAlexW2326906021
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited2

This article analyzes the Japanese public pension system for classifications and valuations by gender, class, and age. In modern states government policies provide subject positions for people as citizens and workers that constitute them in certain identities and relationships. Japanese pension policies offer a pattern of subject positions that reproduces the high economic growth underlying the power of the Japanese state. Government pensions support government employees and employees of large and medium companies along with their dependent wives far better than the self-employed in small businesses and agriculture whose wives are assumed to be independently working. In the 1986 reforms women received contradictory subject positions as government policies encouraged them on one hand to be continual full-time workers and on the other to be dependent wives of salaried men, who work part-time without pension benefits. [Japan, pension, welfare, class, gender]

Pension · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Law · Mathematics · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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