Women in Japan s Employment Past Present and Future
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Men and women in Japan's employment spectrum have been different since time began. If you only look at one time period it seems as if there hasn't even been improvement. As one Japanese editor, Shimomura Mitsuko, once said, "The American way to change society is surgery. You operate right away, no matter how much blood is spilled, and mop up later. We Japanese prefer to take a vitamin pill each day, to effect change slowly." Slowly but surely Japanese women should be able to have the same chances at competition in the job market as men. We can observe the slow changes in comparing the 1990s to today, and though there still might be a huge gap between men's and women's job opportunities, there is proof that the 'job scene' for women is improving.
A whole ten years after Japan's Equal Employment Opportunity Law for Men and Women (EEOL) was passed in 1986, female employment opportunities had barely changed. Administration and management of big businesses were simply ignoring the law, and nothing was or could be done about it. One of the main problems today is that because women have customarily stayed home once they were married and had a baby, many employers hesitate to employ them...