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The status of women in Japan is complex and cannot be characterized in simple terms. Slowly, there is a growing number of professional women and professional women's associations. More women continue to work after getting married and having children. However, many companies have separate programmes for women, usually non-career development, and follow practices that would be considered discriminatory in other societies. For a typical couple, the female spouse is still generally expected to do all of the cleaning, cooking, and other chores, whether she is working or not. Single women are said to be enjoying their lives, spending much money on travel abroad and shopping. Housewives are active in networking themselves for various objectives, for example volunteer activities, community services, recycling activities, study groups, and many others. The traditional Japanese value of “good wife, good mother’ is changing.
Unlike other countries where a couple is the usual social unit, in Japan it is typical for only the husband to be invited to business gatherings or to weddings for company employees. Exceptions are frequently made for foreign visitors depending on the occasion, but female spouses should not take their exclusion as a personal slight.
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In the United States today, more than half of mothers with young children work, compared to about one third in the 1970s. Working mothers are now the rule rather than the exception. Women have been moving into the workforce not only for career satisfaction ___(37)___ because they and their families need the income.
In many families today, mothers continue to work because they have careers that they have spent years ___(38)___. Some women return to work soon after giving birth because they know that most employers in this country are not ___(39)___ to working mothers who wish to take time off to be with their young children. If these women stop working, even for several months, they may ___(40)___ some of the advantages they have earned or risk losing certain career opportunities.
As a greater number of women enter the workforce and stay there, more and more children ___(41)___ for by adults other than their parents. Relatives sometimes take on child care duties, or children are cared for in a variety of child care settings. Not surprisingly, working mothers are more likely to have their infants and toddlers in an out-of-the-home child care center than unemployed mothers.
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