HRO Today APAC Spring 2020 - 9

Diversity & Inclusion
Empowering
Working Women
Japanese women face many obstacles returning to the workplace
after having children.
By Michael Switow
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would like to see
women comprise a larger percentage of his country's
workforce. Faced with a shrinking labour pool as baby
boomers and 1950s danso-generation men retire, Abe
placed women at the centre of his growth strategy in
2013, declaring that he would create " a Japan in which
women shine. "
To some extent, Abe's efforts have borne fruit. At last
year's World Economic Forum, Abe trumpeted two facts:
Nearly 3 million women entered the workplace in the
preceding six years, and Japan now has a higher female
labour force participation rate than the United States
(74 per cent versus 71 per cent).
But these statistics mask a darker truth: The country's
gender pay gap is by far the largest of any advanced
economy, and the situation is getting worse. Out of
153 countries surveyed, Japan ranks 121st, in between
the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, according to
the World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Gender Gap
report. A little more than a decade earlier, Japan
ranked 80th. Japanese women, meanwhile, make about
75 cents on the dollar as compared with their male
counterparts.
The gender gap is exacerbated by cultural forces, including
the expectation that women are primarily responsible for
child-rearing, which leads nearly half of Japanese women
to quit work after having their first child.
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