Japanese Women Get the Short End

Posted by Bill on October 22nd, 2008 in asia | Comments Off

A government “White Paper on Gender Equality” took a look at women’s roles in society compared to men and women in 12 countries: United States, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Britain, the Philippines, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea.

Japanese women came up on the wrong end of the rankings in quite a few categories.

1. Just 12.5 of Japanese men helped out at home where both parents worked and they have pre-school children. Western Countries – 30-40%.

2.  Japanese women made up 41.4% of the work force, on a par with otherriyo.mori.aids.jpg countries.

3.  Only 10.1% of Japanese women worked in mangement,

better only than Korea’s 7.8% and France’s 7.2% and far behind the Philippines 57.8% and the US at 42.5%.

4.  Japan had just 9.4% representation in the national political assembly. Only Malaysia was worse wth must 8.9%. Sweden was tops with 47.3%.

Perhaps Japan’s Miss Universe, Riyo Mori, could skip AIDS and work to help bring about more equality for the better looking half of Japan’s society, no?


 

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