Contents
Individualization of marriage and work life choices : a study of never-married employed women in Hong Kong and Tokyo / Hiromi Tanaka ; Catherine W. Ng 1
Abstract 1
Introduction 1
Individualization and Changes in Women's Lives: West and East 2
Dramatic Increases in the Never-married Populations of Hong Kong and Tokyo 7
Social Stigma and Social Images of Never-married Women in East Asian Modernities 10
Why Do Women in East Asia Not Marry? 12
Never-married Employed Women Informants 13
Centralis of Work 22
Work-Marriage Decision: Work and Marriage 24
Constraints on Having Both Work and Marriage 24
Conclusion 28
References 31
Biographical Note 35