Reconciliation of work and childcare: Among the six countries (France, USA, Japan, Sweden, UK, Germany) the ratio of female population/employment in Japan is the smallest and the part timers share among female employees is high in Japan. Over the decades the situation of female employment has altered considerably in Japan. Although women are no longer needed to decline their jobs when they bear or marry children, several women in Japan decline working while increasing children, and undertakes part-time jobs when they re-enter the labor market. Still it is critical for women to predict similarly well-paying work after the childcare break when they re-enter the labor force. This is identified widely as the major reason for high opportunity cost experienced by women’s in Japan who has children contributed to low rates of birth in Japan.
工作和育儿和解：在六个国家（法国，美国，日本，瑞典，英国，德国）日本女性人口就业率是最小的和部分定时器份额在女性员工在日本的高。在女性就业状况已经大大改变了几十年来在日本。虽然妇女不再需要拒绝他们的工作时，熊或结婚生孩子，日本下降而增加儿童几个妇女工作，从事兼职工作时，他们进入劳动力市场。它仍然是妇女的预测同样高薪的工作重要的育儿的休息后，当他们进入劳动力。这是被广泛作为机会成本高的妇女在日本有谁的孩子有助于在日本出生率低的主要原因。
