The social participation of women, especially married women, has been increasing each year. Therefore, marriage and childbirth have a strong negative impact on the sustainability of employment and seems to be showing the existence of trade-off in between reproduction within the family and production within the labor market where women bear most of the domestic and child-care responsibilities.

The transition pattern of lower-class women with less education fits well to the prediction of neo-classical economics; but the tendency of highly educated women's regression to non-employment reveals the strong influence of the unfavourable labor market structure, which can be better explained by the neo-structuralist perspective.

The following interviews explore the relationship between women’s reproductive and productive labor and the change of women in the family and labor force participation according to the life cycle.