日同族庭正派历着社会角色调换的历程，许多家庭的老婆以及少女儿结束赚取家庭支出的大全体，而男性正在就业墟市中没有再受宠，投入“没落”状态。据报道，日本工厂以及建筑公司正在频仍地开除工人，而许多办事公司更青睐少女性职工，由于她们的平衡薪水更低。对付指望经过刺激破费来帮忙日本从长达10年的通货紧缩状态中脱节进去的当局来讲，这种趋势将令眼下时势尤其艰苦。其余，少女性由于就业导致的娶亲以及生育率升高，会让人口老龄化重要的日本雪上加霜。
Japanese families are experiencing a social role reversal, with many wives and daughters making up for the largest part of the income, while male workers are being pushed away from the job market.
Factories and building companies lay off workers and many service firms prefer women that they pay lower average wages. The new trend makes it harder for the authorities to spur consumer spending and pull Japan out of its decade long deflation. Moreover, working women have fewer reasons to marry and have children, in a country that already has the fastest-aging society in the developed world.
Manufacturing and building sectors, where seven out of 10 employees are men, will lose 4 million workers in the next ten years, according to Works Institute, a Tokyo-based organization. Health care, where three out of four workers are women, has been the fastest growing sector in terms of personal headcount for the last three years, data from the Labor Ministry show.
"With Japanese companies increasingly moving abroad and a shrinking population making growth in construction work unlikely, these sectors just can t absorb male workers the way they used to," explained Toshihiro Nagahama, chief economist at Dai- Ichi Life Research Institute in Tokyo. "Nominal wages are falling and falling as a result. This mancession is far from over."
An explanation of the trend is that Japan s economy is moving from industrial production to services. A very popular one is catering, a market with 29 million people over the age of 64.