Social Time and Social Space of Wives in Kohoku New Town with Reference to Labor Market

这项研究旨在考察居住在东京西郊的失业妻子和有工作妻子的生活方式的差异。对横滨国久新城142户家庭的一个节假日(2000年1月23日)和一个工作日(2000年1月24日)的社交时间和社交空间进行了Agustionnaire调查。被调查家庭的特征如下：高中学历的已婚夫妇构成核心家庭，他们在5年内从横滨、川崎和东京的23个区迁徙过来。与失业妻子相比，每天将三分之一的时间用于工作和通勤的在职妻子花在家务和/或育儿上的时间更少。与多摩新城(Sugiura and Miyazawa，2001)的调查结果不同的是，在日本，失业和有工作的妻子的睡眠时间都长达20分钟，这是因为在日本，丈夫的通勤时间较短，这可能是妻子出勤率较晚的原因之一。60%的受雇妻子在当地的筑木和青瓦区工作，主要从事白领和灰领工作，主要是兼职工人。几乎大多数妻子以前都为全职工作而苦恼。其中70%的人以结婚和分娩为动力退休。

This study aims at considering the difference between the life-style of unemployed wives and that of employed wives residing in west suburbs of Tokyo. Aguestionnaire survey of social time and social space in one holiday (Jan. 23, 2000) and one weekday (Jan. 24, 2000) was conducted awong 142 households in Kohoku New Town, Yokohama. The attributes of surveyed households are as follows: marride couples with highly school career form nuclear families, who have migrated from Yokohama, Kawasaki and 23 wards of Tokyo in 5 years. Compared with the unemployed wives, the employed wives who spend a third of daily hours on working and commuting spqre less time for domestic duties and/or childrearing. One of the major difference from the survey for Tama New Town (Sugiura and Miyazawa, 2001) is a fact that sleeping hours of both unemployed and employed wives are as longer as 20 minutes in Kohoku New Town This is because shorter commuting time of the husbands in Kohoku New Town might contribute to their wive's later turnout. Sixty percent of the employed wives work in local places of Tsuzuki and Aoba Wards and are engaged in white and gray collar works chiefly as part-time worker. Nearly most of the wives had formerly worred as full-time worker. Seventy persent of them retired from office with marriage and parturition as a momentum.