Women's Work and Economic Development

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According to Yano, there is possibility of income difference occurring between female workers and male workers owing to the probability difference in realizing expected lifetime income. Moreover, the female workers themselves may choose any other types of employment than regular type in their employment opportunities, even though both male and female workers might be secured the same working conditions by the firm. It is an economic phenomenon if biological sex difference causes the female behavior and decision making to let income difference occur. However, the idea of such gap would be accepted as a social convention, eventually becoming the issue on the female workers as social sex difference.Nokita analyzed the structural change of the women's work in the process of economic development, especially in the ASEAN countries. These countries experienced very rapid economic growth called"Asian miracle"and then serious economic recession triggered by"Asian monetary crisis". She also examined employment structures of female and male workers focusing on labor statistics by occupation and by industry. This analysis suggests that their employment structures have common features in their occupations and the industries to which those workers belong, regardless differences of region, culture and generation. The explanation on women's behavior described above may apply to the women's decision in choosing a type of occupation or industry.