Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts

Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• knexcar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Which line’s male and which line’s female?

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The blue line is male and the blue line is female.

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The lower averaging one is the female one, but one must remember that japan is deeply conservative and that means household and caring for kids/elders are womens duties - additional to the working hours. I couldn’t find data for the amount of unpaid work done, but i found participation surveys, which show the difference in what percentage of men/women are involved in unpaid work on any given day in the working populace:
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    source: https://www.e-stat.go.jp/en/stat-search/files?stat_infid=000032224111

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• Kefla@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  40 hours a week is 160 hours in a month, which the male average seems to dip below regularly and the female average is always below. That doesn’t seem worse than my situation in the US.

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1) This is the official working time, which does not include the obligatory overtime where bosses require their employees to accompany them going drinking and stuff
    2) They want japanese babies, and no immigrants - so their working time MUST get below other western countries or it will never happen.

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    • lefthandeddude@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I completely agree. This is all about people not enjoying life because they work too much. Regulate the problem as an externality and this problem would go away. But government leaders in Japan would never have the guts to radically regulate the problem, such as requiring double the pay for overtime after 28 hours of work in a week.

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