The chapters in this volume illuminate important dimensions of gender inequality in Japan - in relation to class, and in comparison to other countries. The book considers the relation of gender inequality to neoliberal policies, and the implications of gender inequality for social reproduction.

Diane Elson is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She has published widely on gender and development. She was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing Frontiers of Economic Thought, 2016, and the International Book Prize, Japan Society of Political Economy, 2018.

Introduction: Feminism and Gender Research in Japan 1. Why do Japanese women suffer from the low status?: The impact of neo- liberalist reform on gender 2. Impact of Marxist feminism on Japanese women's movement: Focusing on the domestic labor debates 3. Gender equality, paid and unpaid care and domestic work: Disadvantages of state- supported marketization of care and domestic work 4. Development, gender, and asymmetries between Mexico and Japan 5. Intersections of gender and class in the distribution of income 6. The reproductive crisis in neoliberal capitalism: Commenting on D. Elson's recent paper