by carterjmrn | Sep 30, 2020 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Japan Mega Trends, Women Power
As we moved into 2020, there was much-justified optimism in Japan. In 2019 we had celebrated the enthronement of a new emperor and the promise of a new age to come, called ‘Reiwa’. Furthermore, 2020, with the hosting of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, was to be the year...
by carterjmrn | Jul 11, 2019 | Changing World of Work, Women Power
Following close on the heels of this blog’s recent May 21 post about Japan’s ongoing gender gap and workplace sexism, let’s get into how women’s footwear may inspire both males and females in the country to step up and give the #MeToo movement in this country some...
by carterjmrn | Jun 26, 2019 | Carter Group Viewpoints, Women Power
In our 2019 CarterJMRN Japan Sentiment Study, we asked 1000 men and women across all 47 prefectures whether they felt that women are making progress toward equality in society. While almost half of the men at 47% felt that this is the case, women were rather less...
by carterjmrn | Jun 18, 2019 | Changing World of Work, Women Power
Before 1985, you could hardly find a Japanese woman in business doing anything more than “office lady” activities: tea serving, copy making, paper filing, etc. As a foreign manager back in the day, I was told not to give them anything outside of that, since they were...
by carterjmrn | May 21, 2019 | Carter Group Viewpoints
It really shouldn’t be this way, but the lives and careers of Japan’s highly educated and capable women are still dictated by how the country’s grey patriarchy thinks and acts. The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report for 2018 shows just how wide the gulf...