These stereotypical perceptions of women run so deep in Japanese society that a prestigious medical school in Tokyo was found to have been curtailing women’s test scores for at least a decade. "Thus, it is not surprising that they simply see Japanese women either as housewives or their assistants who are to serve men both in private and in public." "Japanese politics and businesses to be dominated by the elderly men who have maintained their private and public lives based on the pre-WWII and pre-modern patriarchy and authoritarian views of women. "Some of the very old generations of Japanese leaders do not hesitate to employ traditional gender beliefs and prejudices in decision making scenes," Dr Nemoto told FairPlanet. One reason for this state of affairs is that Japanese workplaces are still dominated by older men who mostly hold outdated views of women, according to Dr Kumiko Nemoto, professor of management in the School of Business Administration at Tokyo’s Senshu University. In Japan’s parliament, the National Diet, only one in 10 lawmakers and ministers are women. Women are also underrepresented in the job market: Less than 15 percent of senior roles in Japanese workplaces are held by women - compared with 42 percent in the US, 40 percent in Sweden and 15.6 percent in neighbbouring South Korea. The number of women working in Japan rose to 72 percent, but the average income of Japanese women remains over 40 percent lower than their male counterparts. Out of 156 countries, Japan ranks 120 in the Global Gender Gap Index report of the World Economic Forum.įormer prime minister Shinzo Abe attempted to change that, and promoted the "womenomics" policy, which sought to boost female employment between 20. This was merely one of countless incidents involving gender inequality and discrimination that Japanese women face at the workplace.
Prime Minister Mori had to apologise, and later resigned over the outcry.įast forward a year later, the former leader of the world’s third-largest economy insisted that he was "scolded for telling the truth." Mori's remark had triggered a wave of protests from female lawmakers and hundreds of volunteers withdrew their applications. As the highly-anticipated Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics were blighted by COVID-19 waves, a different kind of scandal involving the games grabbed global media's attention: Japan's then-prime minister and organising committee chief Yoshiro Mori was caught saying that women "talk too much," and that having female board members in the meetings meant they would "drag on."
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