Comparative Gender Analysis of New Economy ; service, information and widening social gaps in aging societies

本研究是对英国、德国、美国和日本在经济全球化时代产生的“新经济”的工业和工作组织的变化进行性别比较分析。文章指出，虽然许多人主张在工业和工作中“减少等级”和“更灵活”的组织方式，但事实上，基于性别、阶级、种族和知识的各种社会差距正在扩大。就目前改革管制和福利国家的一个因素而言，不仅不应忽视放松管制和私有化的因素，而且不应忽视重新管制和加强安全网的因素，这些现象与性别关系交织在一起。这四个国家在世界上都有很强的经济实力，相互之间形成了极好的对比。这四个国家的性别制度尤其不同。美国在提升女性地位方面是最先进的。在日本的性别制度中，女性的家庭角色似乎是最重要的。这项研究调查并明确了性别制度在福利、工业、工作和家庭方面是否一直在趋同，还是在强烈的路径依赖下一直在分化。2002年9月3日，在东京大学举行了“全球化时代的新经济：美欧日的性别比较分析”公开研讨会，与研究小组以外的学者和市民就本研究的概念交换意见。研讨会成果发表在《现代社会》第31卷第1期（2003年1月）《跨国女性主义》专刊上。2003年9月底和2004年3月初分别在不来梅大学和日本与海外共同研究人员举行了研讨会。为了向社会广泛传播本研究成果，于2004年3月4日在东京大学举行了公开研讨会“全球化时代的新经济：美欧日的性别比较分析II”（第18届UT-ISS研讨会）

This research is a comparative gender analysis of the United Kingdom, Germany, United State and Japan regarding the changes in industrial and work organization which would have been produced as "New Economy" in an era of economic globalization. It is pointed out that although many have argued about "less hierarchical" and "more flexible" way of organization in industry and work, in fact various social gaps based on gender, class, ethnicity and knowledge have been expanding. Not only the elements of deregulation and privatization but also the elements of re-regulation and strengthening safety net should not be overlooked, in relation to a vector of the current reformation of regulation and welfare states, and these phenomena intersect gender relations. Above four countries have strong economic power in the world and make implicationally an excellent contrast each other. These four countries have different gender regimes in particular. The United States is most advanced in promoting wome … More n's working. Japan's gender regime seems that woman's domestic roles are the highest priority. This research has investigated and made clear whether gender regimes cross cutting welfare, industry and working and family have been converging or whether it has been diverging under a strong path dependency.Namely the public symposium "New Economy in a Global Era : Comparative Gender Analysis of US, Europe and Japan" was held at University of Tokyo on September 3, 2002 to exchange opinions regarding the concepts of this research with scholars as well as citizens outside of the research group. The results of the symposium were published in the special issue "Transnational Feminism" in "Gendai Sisou" Vol.31 No.1 (January 2003). Workshops with overseas co-investigators were held in the University of Bremen at the end of September, 2003 and in Japan at the beginning of March,2004. In order to widely disseminate the results of this research to the society, the public symposium "New Economy in a Global Era : Comparative Gender Analysis of US, Europe and Japan II" (the 18th UT-ISS Symposium) at the University of Tokyo on March 4, 2004 Less