Nor is it just confined to white-collar, corporate Japan. In the university I work in there are approximately 260 teaching faculty. Three, yes, three of them are women. And they all work in the languages department. We are a science and engineering university, 10% of our undergraduates are female, yet there are no female faculty to be found teaching them (or male graduates either). It is not exactly sending out a very positive message about either their choice of study or their potential job opportunities.
Saturday 12 November 2011
Japanese Demographics Part II
As a sort of postscript to my previous entry, I will point you in the direction of this article in a recent edition of the Economist (Cian kindly lent me his copy). It is a fairly damning indictment of the inherent, one might say entrenched sexism in Japan's labour market. The article in full is at the following link:
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