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Since the COVID-19 global pandemic started, it has caused women to suffer more economic shock than men in Japan, especially those who are in nonstandard employment. Evidence shows that it is more difficult for nonstandard employees to recover employment interrupted by COVID-19 than regular employees. More than half of the women employed in Japan are nonstandard employees, whose instability of employment has been worsened by COVID-19. This paper aims to clarify its impact on employment of single women living in urban areas in Japan. Do nonstandard employees suffer worse than regular workers? How is their life changed by COVID-19? Since the Japanese social welfare system is constructed on the assumption of a “husband breadwinner” model, single women are likely to be excluded from this system. They are more likely to fall into the painful struggle to become independent when they lose their income while neither family nor welfare policy can help them. However, there is few research focusing on single women with regard to the impact of COVID-19. My research finds that single women with nonstandard employment suffered more than those with regular employment in both work and life, especially those who are elderly. |
