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Daily Brief ESG: Women’s Empowerment in Japan Will Still Take a Considerable Amount of Time and more

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  • Women’s Empowerment in Japan Will Still Take a Considerable Amount of Time


Women’s Empowerment in Japan Will Still Take a Considerable Amount of Time

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Since Japan’s gender gap index ranks 118th out of 146 countries, stagnating in the lower group, it will take a considerable amount of time to resolve the issue.
  • A shortcut to the improvement of women’s status is to greatly improve the gender ratio in the legislature in order to change the current framework for improving women’s status.
  • Behind the lagging 103rd place in the ratio of female managers is the lack of progress in higher education for women.

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