Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launches Abenomics plan Increase # of Women in the Workplace.
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[QUOTE]...The fact that Ito was able to continue working after she had Saki 2½ years ago is noteworthy. Only 38 percent of Japanese women return to their jobs after having their first baby.
Forget “leaning in.” Japanese women are opting out.
Now Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to change that. Abe has made fixing Japan’s moribund economy his top priority, launching an ambitious “Abenomics” plan that includes boosting female participation in the labor force. Among the goals of his “womenomics” initiative is raising the proportion of mothers who return to work after the birth of their first child to 55 percent by the year 2020.
“Abenomics won’t succeed without women•omics,” Abe told a women’s business forum this year.
Although Japan is the world’s third-largest economy, it is at the low end of most statistical charts when it comes to women in the workplace. The World Economic Forum’s most recent global •gender-gap report — which tracks economic, political and other disparities — puts Japan in 105th place out of 136 countries, behind nations such as Tajikistan and Cameroon.[/QUOTE]
The emancipation of women.
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from motherhood.
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The emancipation of women.
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from motherhood.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a good way to reverse the problem Japan is facing, and will more so later on.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;45590389]Sounds like a good way to reverse the problem Japan is facing, and will more so later on.[/QUOTE]
I thought Japan's problem is an ageing populating and plummeting birth rate? If anything this would just exacerbate that.
Or ya know, full paid Paternal leave for men and women would be nice too.
Or at least higher than 2/3 pay.
From what I know, the older generation (people who support Abe) think people should be working more, while the younger generation wants to spend more time with their kids.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;45590389]Sounds like a good way to reverse the problem Japan is facing, and will more so later on.[/QUOTE]
So with more women working, you think more women will have the time to do family stuff?
I don't quite understand the logic here.
This will just decrease the birthrates even more, while their xenophobia hinders them from getting foreign workers to immigrate to the country.
[QUOTE=Impact1986;45591346]This will just decrease the birthrates even more, while their xenophobia hinders them from getting foreign workers to immigrate to the country.[/QUOTE]
That's something that's going to have to change in the long run unless young Japanese mothers suddenly develop a love for uterus clown car mode.
Shouldn't they be encouraging women to have families so their population doesn't completely implode in 10 years? I'm all for equality but when you have a problem creating new people I don't think funnelling your current people into work is entirely productive.
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Hell, give a grant/benefit/what ever you want o call it to families with one worker and one stay home parent. That way you can get women into the work place and still encourage people to have families.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;45596193]Shouldn't they be encouraging women to have families so their population doesn't completely implode in 10 years? I'm all for equality but when you have a problem creating new people I don't think funnelling your current people into work is entirely productive.
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they need to entice everyone to have children. proper paternal leave would be a start
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;45596193]Shouldn't they be encouraging women to have families so their population doesn't completely implode in 10 years? I'm all for equality but when you have a problem creating new people I don't think funnelling your current people into work is entirely productive.
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Hell, give a grant/benefit/what ever you want o call it to families with one worker and one stay home parent. That way you can get women into the work place and still encourage people to have families.[/QUOTE]
They already do this. The government gives money as an incentive for women to have children. In Okinawa its about 200-300 dollars a month for having a kid.
Depends on what his ideas are.
If the plan is to make it so having a child isn't the kind of thing that cripples your career, if anything it would make women more inclined to have children.
Seeing Japanese fertility rates and aging population I would be more worried why that first child is also her last.
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