Women and Japanese Management: Discrimination and Reform

Book Description:

Women and Japanese Management examines research on the Japanese employment system with an emphasis on issues of women’s equality. Alice C. L. Lam provides a detailed analysis of the position of women in the labor market in contemporary Japan, explaining why Japanese women workers experience more extreme forms of discrimination than their counterparts in the West. She examines how growing pressure for equal opportunity has caused Japanese companies to adapt their employment and personnel management practices in recent years, with particular emphasis on the 1986 Equal Employment Opportunity Law and its effect on company policies and the career attitudes of Japanese women.