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In an effort to understand the roots of gender inequality, Myra Strober and Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan conducted an extensive survey of the 1981 graduates of Stanford and Tokyo Universities--parallel populations in historically very different cultures. First-hand comments from the graduates are combined with quantitative analyses for a lively examination of the career and family choices of these highly educated women and men. The authors take a fresh look at the widespread belief that U.S. gender equity is light years ahead of Japan's. The elite group of Japanese and Americans in their study describe surprisingly similar experiences as they faced the job market and began raising families. ... Read more

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Interesting
I bought this because I was curious about Agnes Chan's writing.I think if one bothers to investigate the costs to women of having children then many social ills can be more accurately studied and hopefully prevented.The big difference seems to be social opportunities and social acceptance between the two countries otherwise the situations tend to parallel.The gold is in the statistics such as the difference in resentment of shouldering more housework was amplified if the woman was not working and how the males were more likely to share in housework if the wife was making a financial contribution.This information is interesting.It would make a truthful mother's day gift and it may be welcomed since part of the pain is society's ignorance/deafness to the true costs.The title is from Christina Rosetti's poem but some mothers or anyone who has ever heard a mother choke up telling herr tale of self-abnegation may recognize a darker truth from the bible as well:
"The road winds uphill all the way. There are many difficulties, privations and hardships."

"Beloved of God" (Romans 1:7)

Beloved of God, Paul calls his Roman friends. There is music in the very sound and cadence of the words, like the bells of the Angelus ringing through the evening sky.

This is the penitent's song. My iniquities are forgiven. My diseases are healed. My life is redeemed from destruction. The God of my salvation has crowned me, through Jesus Christ, with His tenderest mercies. This is the soldier's security. Around me, within me, are enemies too strong for my feeble arm and fickle heart. But the Lord of Hosts is on my side and victory is sure. I am beloved of Him who has all power. This is the pilgrim's staff. The road winds uphill all the way. There are many difficulties, privations and hardships. Shall I be able to persevere to the end? Yes, I am beloved of Him, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord who sees and provides.
This is the saint's assurance. God is not the God of the dead but of the living. If he is mine and I am His, the grave will not end our fellowship. I am beloved of Him whose years are from everlasting, and to whom both my body and soul are unspeakably dear.

Comparing the Gender Gap in the U. S. and Japan
The Road Winds Uphill All The Way: Gender, Work and Family in the United States and Japan. By Myra H. Strober and Agnes M. K. Chan. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999, 276 pp.

Stober and Chan maintain that theeconomic position of women in the United States bears a number of uncannysimilarities to that of Japanese women. This is one of a number ofdisconcerting conclusions they draw from a study of the Stanford and Tokyo(Todai) University graduating classes of 1981, surveyed roughly a decadeafter graduation. Readers interested in the details of campus life in thesetwo schools will come away disappointed, but those seeking to learn whathappened to the graduates later in life will be richly rewarded.

The book focuses on the difficulty of combining work and family for thoseentering, or seeking to enter, the highest echelons of the professions andmanagement.Strober and Chan recognize the distinctiveness of their elitesample, but this is clearly an important group.They typically set thetrends for their respective societies, and will likely formulate thework-family policies that govern the daily work routines of theircountry-men and women.

Strober and Chan recall their personalchild-care dilemmas after returning to work in Washington, D. C. and Tokyo,respectively. Their stories immediately draw the reader into the questionof which country poses a greater array of obstacles for working mothers toovercome. Yet it is the statistical similarities between Japan and the U.S. that Strober and Chan return to throughout the book.

Thefemale-male ratio of earnings for full time earners ten years aftergraduation was .80 for the Stanford graduates, nearly identical to the .79ratio found in the Todai sample. Moreover, men and women in bothcountries expected the gender gap to widen as their careers unfolded.Whenrespondents were asked what they expected to earn at the peak of theircareers, the female/ male ratio is a dramatic .459 in the Stanford sampleand .548 in the Todai sample. In other words, women graduating from thesetop-ranked schools expected to make about half as much as their malecounterparts at the peak of their careers.

A number ofcountervailing differences account for these similarities. Todai women werea small and very elite group, which contributed to a smaller gap in theTodai sample. At the same time, earnings inequality is narrower in Japanthan in the United States, which tends to mute the gender gap in earnings.On the other hand, child care options are broader in the United States, butstill far from adequate. Stanford women reported more numerous child careoptions, and were less likely to experience career interruptions afterchildbirth. Some Todai mothers reported being forced to quit their jobsafter the birth of a child, an experience not mentioned by the Stanfordwomen.

Who took care of the children? It depends on who you ask.Just over half of the Stanford fathers reported sharing child care equallywith their wives when they were not at work, but only thirty percent oftheir female counterparts reported being in such marriages. This gap growsto 56 percent versus 21 percent among Stanford parents working full time.Responses to the slightly different child care question posed to the Todaisample suggests an even lower level of participation by men in parenting.Most of the Todai fathers (60 percent) said they spend less than half oftheir free time on their children, while nearly all (97 percent) of theworking Todai mothers said they spend half or more of their free time withtheir children. There are many other interesting analyses,including an examination of the effect of relative earnings on the share ofhousework in the two samples, and the determinants of earnings.Thebargaining model of housework appears to fit the U. S. data but receiveslittle support in the Japanese analysis. Working in a large firm shapedearnings in Japan: women were less likely to be employed in these firms,and received a lower premium when they did.Male Stanford graduates fromupper-class backgrounds earned significantly more than their classmates.Analysts of gender, earnings, and family relations will find many suchinteresting results to ponder.

The Japanese birth rate (1.57children per woman ) is well below the replacement level.Strober and Chansuggest that policy changes should be made to help make it more feasiblefor women to combine work with motherhood. They recommend efforts to reducegender discrimination and occupational segregation, and call for moreflexible employment and high quality child care. They recommend similarreforms in the United States, which are aimed at promoting gender equityrather than fertility levels.

This thoughtful and timely bookdeserves a wide audience. Clearly written, it isaccessible to the generalpublic, upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. The presentationof the survey results and statistical findings are supplemented withinformative quotations from the respondents.Its policy recommendationsflow directly from the meticulously documented findings. This work shouldprovide further impetus to comparative research on gender inequality.

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Wacky world of Japanese TV!
This book does a great job profiling the top 20 foreign talents in Japan with information normally available only in Japanese. Since this book only covers top foreign talent it may leave out people you know and love. It must have been a hard judgement call to know who to cut; a top 30 would have been better!Since a few of my favorites are missing I can only give 4 stars. ... Read more

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Gain a perspective in appreciating Chinese culture from Chinese archaic jade
This book has enlightened me the way of appreciating the Chinese archaic jade, from its forms, workmanship, and patterns, to better understand and appreciate the thousand-years Chinese culture and the perseverance and dignity of ancient Chinese people. By viewing the surface erosion of the archaic jades in the book, which is an evidence mark of thousands of years of history, it reminds how 'trivial' I am in this world as compared to the 'age' of the archaic jade. What more amazing is their ever-changing natural suffusion that makes the jades "alive"! The pictures in the book have well-illustrated the varying characteristics of Chinese archaic jades. I am surprised with the author's valuable, comprehensive, and representative jade collections as ancient as from Neolithic period to Han dynasty. I am also grateful to her sharing of her knowledge in Chinese jade, history and culture.
I highly recommend this book to those who are interested in knowing more about Chinese archaic jades , or those who would like to gain a new perspective in appreciating Chinese culture by appreciating Chinese archaic jade.
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All I have to say about Alphascript's "book" on 4chan...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA.

Are you kidding me? A crappy, copy-pasta'd from Wikipedia "book" by people who don't do any editing, and who know nothing about 4chan itself? These 'editors' are editors in name only and have no idea what the hell they're doing, there's over 7000 "books" by this company full of Wikipedia copypasta, but I honestly didn't see THIS one coming.

Edit - as of December 2009, there are OVER 14,000 books by Alphascript. YES, FOURTEEN THOUSAND.

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