Married Women’s Retrospective Life Satisfaction : Effects of Gender Role Attitudes in the Past and Experienced Career Patterns

キコン　ジョセイ　ノ　ジンセイ　マンゾクカン　カコ　ノ　ブンギョウ　イシキ　ト　ショクギョウ　ケイレキ　ガ　アタエル　エイキョウ

イヌイ, ジュンコ

Inui, Junko

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

分業意識

パートタイム

パネルデータ

retrospective life satisfaction

gender role attitudes

part-time work

panel data

This study clari es how married women’s gender role attitudes and career patterns in the past affect their life satisfaction in their middle and advanced ages. It has been found that when working styles are consistent with their gender role attitudes, their degrees of life satisfaction increase. For example, housewives who have traditional gender role attitudes and full-time working wives who have non-traditional gender role attitudes tend to be satis ed with their lives. However, the relationship between gender role attitudes and part-time workers’ life satisfaction has not been clari ed. Meanwhile, cross-sectional data does not clarify the causal relationship between gender role attitudes and work status. In order to explore their relationships, the present study uses longitudinal data from a sample of 152 wives who were interviewed both in 1982 and 2006. Using multiple regression analysis, the author states that the degree of retrospective life satisfaction of “part-time type career pattern workers” is lowest during the second wave, controlling for their gender role attitudes during the rst wave and other socio-economic variables. Furthermore, “part-time type career pattern workers” who have more egalitarian gender role attitudes are the least satis ed with their lives.