Gendering spaces in urban areas from the view points of women's work and life

自20世纪70年代末以来，日本大都市地区的职业妇女人数明显增加。然而，女性劳动者的工作和生活方式有所不同。由于婚姻和生育等生活事件对职业女性的工作和居住载体有重大影响，有必要考虑到她们所处的人生阶段，对她们的工作方式和住房条件进行审查。本研究的目的是调查30多岁职业女性面临重大生活事件的变化，研究女性的工作和生活，并利用地理信息系统方法分析女性的迁移。1.从东京单身女性和已婚女性的住房选择偏好和住房问题的角度，提出了一系列与东京大都市圈性别空间形成相关的研究论文。因此，本研究的目的是关注大都市地区女性面临的住房问题的社会经济背景和区域背景，考察大城市中“性别空间”的形成，并澄清这一趋势的各个方面。2.最近，拥有职业导向的工作妻子的家庭被视为搬到CBD附近的绅士阶层。考虑到城市住房市场和城市地理结构的变化，调查这些妇女的居住行为是很重要的。对调查数据的分析表明，妻子有工作的核心家庭比丁克人更多地居住在CBD附近。这些发现与久负盛名的居住轨迹生命周期模型并不一致。我们的研究报告发表在国际会议上：2003年在新加坡的ICAS3和2004年在英国的第30^IGU。2004年，我们出版了《东京职场女性的城市空间》。

Since the late 1970s the number of working women has markedly increased in Japanese metropolitan areas. There are, however, variations in the styles of work and life among female laborers. As life events such as marriage and childbearing have a significant effect on the job and residential carriers of working women, it is necessary to examine their working style and housing conditions considering their life stage. The aims of this study are to investigate the variations of working women at the ages of 30s who are likely to face important life events, to research women's works and lives and to analyze women's migration by GIS method.1.We have presented a series of research papers related to the formation of gender space in Tokyo metropolitan area, from the perspectives of housing location selection preferences and housing issues faced by single women and married women in Tokyo. The goal of the current research is thus to focus on the socioeconomic background and regional background to the housing issues facing women in large metropolitan areas, to examine the formation of "gender space" in large cities, and to clarify various aspects of this trend.2.Recently, households with a career-oriented working wife are regarded as gentrifiers moving to the vicinity of the CBD. It is important to investigate the residential behavior of these women to consider changes of the urban housing market and geographical structure of the city. The analysis of survey data reveals that nuclear families with working wife reside more in the vicinity of CBD than DINKs do. These findings are not consistent with time-honored lifecyclc model of residential trajectory.Our research reports were presented in international congresses : ICAS3 in Singapore, 2003 and 30^<th> IGU in UK, 2004. And we published "Urban Space of Working Women in Tokyo" in 2004.