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Equal Opportunity for Japanese Women - What Progress?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Charles Weathers
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Career opportunities have improved greatly for many Japanese women in recent years. More large companies are willing to hire them as career-track employees, and their share of elite civil servant positions has been growing. Although female students at my institution, Osaka City University, still encounter discrimination during the job hunt, they have actually outperformed men in recent job searches. A survey of the top 74 universities confirms the trend, showing that women had higher job placement rates this spring in most of the 395 departments covered. [1] It appears that some businesses are taking more seriously the mantra that ability trumps gender in today's more globalized, market-oriented economy.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 10 , October 2005 , e19
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[1] AERA, 15 August 2005, pp. 72-77.

[2] See the January 2005 issue of Business Labor Trend, a monthly Japanese-language publication of the quasi-governmental Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training.

[3] The report, regarding the July 27th session, was posted on MHLW's website on August 3rd.

[4] Interview, 11 September 2004. Yoshimiya is also one of the labor representatives in the ongoing EEOL deliberations. Rengo, which selects all the labor representatives, has at best limited contact with women's groups.