Farm Women's Selection of Employment in The Case of Field Crop Farming in Tokachi

Farm Women's Selection of Employment are changing. The purpose of this study is to analyse how women change their present working status in Tokachi where scarce opportunity exists for them to get jobs. To estimate the decision function of the employment probability of farm women, Logit Model was applied. The result of this analysis is as follows: (1) The employment selection of farm women is influenced by the age of woman, land size, market wage, number of other women in the family, number of children and male earning. (2) The job selection behavior of farm women has been changed from being influenced by their husbands to be full time farmer to the situation of being albe to choose their own jobs to make their maximum utility