Qualitative Research on the Career Consciousness and Gender Differences of Care Workers in Nursing Homes.

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The purpose of this research was to revealed the career consciousness and gender differences of care workers in nursing homes in Japan by semi-structured interview research to care workers in nursing homes. The data was analyzed by the summarizing content analysis method. This research revealed that their characteristic and their problems of male care workers and female care workers, for example, attitudes to care work, consciousness of professions, and expectations for future career development. In addition, the common features and the different points were examined about job consciousness of male care workers and female care workers. As a result, it found that the common features were the diversity of the occupation career to becoming care worker and the chance of taking a job to care worker, and the different points were the thought of job career, consciousness of professions, and expectation for career development. It is important that this study suggested that labor market for care work have gender structure by the double meaning. Describing the concrete example, the caring work is a cheap labor because it has been considered the woman's labor. Also, a lot of women have been adopted as not the regular member but a part-time worker as cheap manpower. Moreover, promotion to the consultation employment and the executive job, it has given preferential treatment to male care workers more than female care workers.