Gender Inequality and Its Irrationality: Implications from the Analytical Results

Kazuo Yamaguchi ()
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Kazuo Yamaguchi: University of Chicago

Chapter 8 in Gender Inequalities in the Japanese Workplace and Employment, 2019, pp 229-260 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this final chapter, we discuss the implications of the following eight specific problems based on the analytical results of the previous chapters: (1) the proportion of women in managerial positions and indirect discrimination; (2) statistical discriminationStatistical discrimination , the self-fulfilling prophecySelf-fulfilling prophecy , and the low productivity of female labor; (3) stereotyping women’s occupations; (4) long work hours and opportunities for women; (5) diversity managementDiversity management and policies for the empowerment of womenEmpowerment of women in the workplace; (6) employment statusEmployment status and the wage gap; (7) application of the Act on the Promotion of Success in theAct on the Promotion of Success in the Working Career of Women Working Careers of Women; and (8) important points when considering gender equality of opportunity.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-7681-8_8

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