Parental Caregiving and Employment among Midlife Women in Japan

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  • Saeko Kikuzawa
    Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
  • Ryotaro Uemura
    Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan

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<jats:p> In this paper, we examine how parental caregiving affects women’s employment in Japan. Drawing on the 2005–2014 Longitudinal Survey of Middle-Aged and Elderly Persons, we estimate logistic regression models for the employment status of middle-aged women in various types of employment as a function of caregiving intensity to examine when and in what context caregivers’ employment may be at risk for Japanese women. The results showed that working women who began providing 5 or more hours of care per week were significantly more likely to leave their jobs than non-caregiving women; those who began providing fewer than 5 hours of care per week did not show this likelihood. Among women in regular employment, those who began to provide 5 or more hours of care per week and those who provided care in the previous year were more likely to stop working or change jobs than their non-caregiving counterparts. </jats:p>

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