![]() Of those who do go back to work, 44% are paid less than they were before they took time off, and 40% have to accept less responsibility or a less prestigious title. But only 43% find a job, compared with 73% in America. The vast majority (77%) of women who take time off work want to return. Some 66% of highly educated Japanese women who quit their jobs say they would not have done so if their employers had allowed flexible working arrangements. ![]() Japanese firms are careful to recycle paper but careless about wasting female talent. And it helps explain why Japanese women struggle to climb the career ladder: only 10% of Japanese managers are female, compared with 46% in America. That says something about Japanese lawmakers' priorities. A Japanese working mother cannot sponsor a foreign nanny for a visa, though it is not hard for a nightclub owner to get “entertainer” visas for young Filipinas in short skirts. Thanks to restrictive immigration laws, they cannot hire cheap help. Japanese working mums do four hours of child care and housework each day-eight times as much as their spouses. Base salaries are low salarymen are expected to fill their pay packets by putting in heroic amounts of overtime.īesides finding these hours just a bit inconvenient, working mothers are unlikely to get much help at home from their husbands. Staff are also under pressure to stay late, regardless of whether they have work to do: nearly 80% of Japanese men get home after 7pm, and many attend semi-compulsory drinking binges in hostess bars until the small hours. Employees are expected to show their faces before 9am, typically after a long commute on a train so packed that the gropers cannot tell whom they are groping. And a traditional white-collar working day makes it hard to pick up the kids from school.Įven if the company rule book says that flexitime is allowed, those who work from home are seen as uncommitted to the team. Old-fashioned bosses see their role as prettifying the office and forming a pool of potential marriage partners for male employees. ![]() But educated women are often shunted into dead-end jobs. Most companies have rules against sexual discrimination. Pictures of naked women, ubiquitous on salarymen's desks in the 1990s, have been removed. The Japanese workplace is not quite as sexist as it used to be. A startling 49% of highly educated Japanese women who quit do so because they feel their careers have stalled. Whereas most Western women who take time off do so to look after children, Japanese women are more likely to say that the strongest push came from employers who do not value them. Japanese women with degrees are much more likely than Americans (74% to 31%) to quit their jobs voluntarily. Nearly half of Japanese university graduates are female but only 67% of these women have jobs, many of which are part-time or involve serving tea.
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