Late marriage and less marriage in Japan
Late marriage and less marriage in Japan
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1728-4457.2001.00065.x
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发表时间：
2001-03-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Matsukura, R
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作者：
Retherford, RD;Ogawa, N;Matsukura, R
在1975年至1995年期间，日本女性的平均单身结婚年龄从24.5岁增加到27.7岁，男性从27.6岁增加到30.7岁，使日本成为世界上最晚结婚的人口之一。在同一时期，根据特定日历年的初婚概率计算，女性永远不会结婚的比例从5%增加到15%，男性从6%增加到22%，这与早年普遍婚姻社会的特征截然不同。本文探讨了这些变化是如何以及为什么发生的。其原因与妇女教育水平的迅速提高、外出工作的妇女比例的大幅度增加、婚姻市场的结构和运作的重大变化、婚前性行为的普遍增加以及与婚姻和家庭生活有关的价值观的深远变化有关。
Between 1975 and 1995, the singulate mean age at marriage in Japan increased from 24.5 to 27.7 years for women and from 27.6 to 30.7 years for men, making Japan one of the latest-marrying populations in the world. Over the same period, the proportion of women who will never marry, calculated from age-specific first-marriage probabilities pertaining to a particular calendar year, increased from 5 to 15 percent for women and from 6 to 22 percent for men-behaviors sharply different from those characterizing the universal-marriage society of earlier years. This article investigates how and why these changes have come about. The reasons are bound up with rapid educational gains by women, massive increases in the proportion of women who work for pay outside the home, major changes in the structure and functioning of the marriage market, extraordinary increases in the prevalence of premarital sex, and far-reaching changes in values relating to marriage and family life.