ABSTRACT
In the process of continuous expansion of the Japanese economy, the first boomers were then called the ‘Golden Egg’ generation and fussed over by competing urban industries. This chapter aims to demonstrate that South Africans and other peoples of the developing world cannot be idle spectators of this process which is most typically manifested in Japan and several European countries and yet gradually affecting a great number of countries in the North and the South alike. The post-war distortion of the Japanese society has started to change the attitude of Japanese women toward child-raising and employment. The labour participation rate of Japanese women describes a typical M-shape curve, which means that a considerable number of women quit their job because of marriage or pregnancy and return to the labour market after their children become more or less independent.
