STUDIES ON THE SUSTAINABLE LIFE-STYLE IN A GENDER-EQUAL AND RECYCLE-BASED SOCIETY

性别平等与循环型社会中的可持续生活方式研究自工业革命以来，人类努力的过程之一就是建立一个从生产领域到消费领域的高效、便捷、舒适的整体日常生活系统。然而，由于这些努力，我们现在不得不面对严酷的生活现实，环境污染，全球资源短缺，工作分工极端，不仅是男女之间的分工，而且是代际差异。面对这些问题，我们从生产-消费、人际关系和劳动等方面重新思考和评价日本“现代”生活方式的意义。基于这些概念，由日本科学理事会的分支家政学研究委员会组成的课题组，目前正在寻求两性平等和以平等为基础的社会中的可持续生活方式，这将是对“合作和相互依存-培养健康社区家政学领导能力，以下六份实况调查报告，包括一些关于我们日常生活中的现象和一些关于教育领域当前趋势的报告，是我们会议记录的一部分。

STUDIES ON THE SUSTAINABLE LIFE-STYLE IN A GENDER-EQUAL AND RECYCLE-BASED SOCIETYSince the industrial revolution, one of the processes of human efforts has been to establish a higher efficient, convenient and comfortable holistic daily-life system, covering from the productive area through consumptive one. As a result of these efforts, however, we are now forced to face up to the harsh realities of life with environmental pollution and shortage of global resources, and with the extreme division of works, not only between men and women, but also in the generational differences. Confronted with these mounting problems, we are led to re-think and evaluate the meaning of our "modern" lifestyles in Japan, both from a production-consumption basis, as well as human relations and labor issues.Based on those conceptions, our project team, organized by Committee for Research of Home Economics, a branch of the Japan Science Council, is now in the process of searching for the sustainable life-style in gender-equal and recycle-based society, which will be one of the answers to the theme, "Cooperation and Interdependence -Fostering Leadership in Home Economics for Healthy Communities," for the 20th World Congress of IFHE 2004 in Kyoto.The following six fact finding papers, including some on phenomena in our daily lives and some on current trends in educational spheres, are a part of our proceedings.