MY OPINION
late marriage
In recent years, women have advanced into society, "late marriage" is a serious problem. As women receive education at university and activity increases, choices of women's workplaces also increase. Some women have social success from a viewpoint of women. However, as the environment in which women can work is completed, late marriage progresses and the birthrate also falls. Women's social advancement is a very good thing, but there are many problems. Why did Japanese late marriage proceed? It has three main reasons.
The first factor is that women have increased opportunities to work in society. If you graduate from university and get a job at age 22, regardless of gender, at age 25, 26, and 27, it is time to concentrate on work and aim for career advancement. If a woman get married and a child is born, she has to take a day off from work. In Japan, childcare is difficult with works, and the tendency for men to acquire childcare leave is not penetrated. There is no place to leave children and you can’t continue working. Because the system to support women's marriage and childbirth is not enough, it is difficult to balance work and home.
The second factor is that the income of men has declined due to the deterioration of the Japanese economy. A job hunting ice age occurred in 2000. Freeters and neat increased and at the same time the regulations of dispatched employees were relaxed, so non-regular employment with lower salaries increased. Concern that income does not increase, so that the family can’t afford to cultivate the whole family is the factor that advances male late marriage.
The third factor is the change in values on marriage. In recent years single is no longer embarrassing, more people have enjoyed life alone, and give priority to what they want to do. Also, like the old Japanese, the connection such as matching that a lover is introduced from a parent is reduced, and we must search the marriage partner for ourselves. Some people get married, but some one cannot get married.
It is urgent to set up a system to support marriage and raising children in Japan now. It is important to have a system for marriage and child rearing that matches our current lifestyle. If people get married faster, the days when the falling birthrate improves may come.
The first factor is that women have increased opportunities to work in society. If you graduate from university and get a job at age 22, regardless of gender, at age 25, 26, and 27, it is time to concentrate on work and aim for career advancement. If a woman get married and a child is born, she has to take a day off from work. In Japan, childcare is difficult with works, and the tendency for men to acquire childcare leave is not penetrated. There is no place to leave children and you can’t continue working. Because the system to support women's marriage and childbirth is not enough, it is difficult to balance work and home.
The second factor is that the income of men has declined due to the deterioration of the Japanese economy. A job hunting ice age occurred in 2000. Freeters and neat increased and at the same time the regulations of dispatched employees were relaxed, so non-regular employment with lower salaries increased. Concern that income does not increase, so that the family can’t afford to cultivate the whole family is the factor that advances male late marriage.
The third factor is the change in values on marriage. In recent years single is no longer embarrassing, more people have enjoyed life alone, and give priority to what they want to do. Also, like the old Japanese, the connection such as matching that a lover is introduced from a parent is reduced, and we must search the marriage partner for ourselves. Some people get married, but some one cannot get married.
It is urgent to set up a system to support marriage and raising children in Japan now. It is important to have a system for marriage and child rearing that matches our current lifestyle. If people get married faster, the days when the falling birthrate improves may come.