We investigate the association between women's educational levels and housework participation across cultural contexts and through different stages in the life-course. In testing the suggestion from previous research that women with higher levels of education spend less time on housework than do women with less education, we found that this argument holds true for single women in Japan, Taiwan, and the United States. Our results also indicate that for all American women and for single and married Taiwanese women without children, their numbers of years of education correlate inversely with their daily hours of domestic labour; however, this correlation does not exist for married Taiwanese women with children. Similarly, the educational levels of married Japanese women-with or without children-have no bearing on their housework participation.

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Mary Chapman's edited collection of newly uncovered works by pioneering Asian North American author Edith Eaton, Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton, is a valuable contribution to the study of a major figure in early Asian American literature. Chapman's volume is an important resource for scholars from various fields, including literary studies, travel studies, ethnic studies, border studies, and women's studies, who are looking for a rare, alternative perspective from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in North America. Chapman has collected the earliest known journalism, literature, and travel writing by a North American of Asian descent, challenging assumptions about cultural commentary and travel narratives and offering a more complex, hybrid, and "transnational engagement" (lviii) with North American culture.Edith Eaton, better known by her pseudonym Sui Sin Far, is celebrated as the first Asian North American author to achieve publication. Her younger sister Winnifred Eaton also wrote under a pseudonym, Onoto Watanna, and is viewed as the first Asian North American novelist. Edith Eaton was born in England to an English father and a Chinese mother and raised primarily in Montreal, Canada. As an adult Eaton lived in various cities and towns in Canada, Jamaica, and the United States, and she wrote short fiction, poetry, journalism, and travel correspondence for a number of newspapers and literary magazines in the United States, Jamaica, and Canada.Eaton is perhaps most famous today for a collection of her work called Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings, edited by Amy Ling and Annette White-Parks and published in 1995, which focuses on Eaton's writings Book Reviews

One of the most influential nonprofit organizations in Japan’s contemporary parenting movement, Fathering Japan has a mission to “increase the number of smiling fathers” and to eliminate obstacles that prevent fathers from participating in family life, which the nonprofit promotes as an enjoyable and fulfilling sphere of activity. Fathering Japan encourages fathers of young children to break with the practices of previous generations of Japanese fathers—who generally eschewed domestic labor—by practicing masculinities that engage actively in child care in ways that lessen women’s workloads and help to raise Japan’s low birthrate. Yet many of the nonprofit’s projects cater to the needs of suit-wearing men pursuing Japan’s traditional heteronormative lifestyles. In contrast, within Fathering Japan, members of the subgroup called the Secret Society, “The Househusband’s Friend,” don aprons and engage in play and parody that both problematize and reaffirm the links among masculinity, work, and family.