34.2% Japanese single women want to be a housewife

34.2% single-women in Japan want to be a full-time housewife, despite growing demand for their participation in the country's male-dominated workforce, according to an official survey-which quizzed over 3,000-people aged 15-39. Among single-men, 19.3% wanted their spouse to be a housewife while 30.2% didn't. The International Monetary Fund estimates that Japan's working-age population will fall by almost 40% by 2050.