日本家庭正經(jīng)歷著社會(huì)角色互換的過程，許多家庭的妻子和女兒開始賺取家庭收入的大部分，而男性在就業(yè)市場(chǎng)中不再受寵，進(jìn)入“衰退”狀態(tài)。據(jù)報(bào)道，日本工廠和建筑公司在頻繁地解雇工人，而許多服務(wù)公司更青睞女性員工，因?yàn)樗齻兊钠骄剿汀?duì)于希望通過刺激消費(fèi)來幫助日本從長達(dá)10年的通貨緊縮狀態(tài)中擺脫出來的政府來說，這種趨勢(shì)將令眼下局勢(shì)更加艱難。此外，女性因?yàn)榫蜆I(yè)導(dǎo)致的結(jié)婚和生育率降低，會(huì)讓人口老齡化嚴(yán)重的日本雪上加霜。

Japanese families are experiencing a social role reversal, with many wives and daughters making up for the largest part of the income, while male workers are being pushed away from the job market.

Japanese families are experiencing a social role reversal, with many wives and daughters making up for the largest part of the income, while male workers are being pushed away from the job market.

Factories and building companies lay off workers and many service firms prefer women that they pay lower average wages. The new trend makes it harder for the authorities to spur consumer spending and pull Japan out of its decade long deflation. Moreover, working women have fewer reasons to marry and have children, in a country that already has the fastest-aging society in the developed world.

Manufacturing and building sectors, where seven out of 10 employees are men, will lose 4 million workers in the next ten years, according to Works Institute, a Tokyo-based organization. Health care, where three out of four workers are women, has been the fastest growing sector in terms of personal headcount for the last three years, data from the Labor Ministry show.

"With Japanese companies increasingly moving abroad and a shrinking population making growth in construction work unlikely, these sectors just can't absorb male workers the way they used to," explained Toshihiro Nagahama, chief economist at Dai- Ichi Life Research Institute in Tokyo. "Nominal wages are falling and falling as a result. This 'mancession' is far from over."

An explanation of the trend is that Japan's economy is moving from industrial production to services. A very popular one is catering, a market with 29 million people over the age of 64.

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(Agencies)

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