Too Few Women at the Top : The Persistence of Inequality in Japan.
Nemoto, Kumiko.
Too Few Women at the Top : The Persistence of Inequality in Japan. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (293 pages)
TOO FEW WOMEN AT THE TOP -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Sex Segregation in Japanese Business -- 2. The Japanese Way of Change: Recasting Institutional Coordination, Sustaining Gender Inequality -- 3. Sex Segregation in Five Japanese Companies -- 4. Women as Cheap Labor: Salaries, Promotions, Ghettos, and the Culture of Woman Blaming -- 5. Production and Navigation of Gender Bias: Heroic Masculinity, Female Misogyny, and Queen Bees -- 6. Thwarted Ambitions and Sympathy: Long Working Hours, Sex Segregation, and the Price of Masculinity -- 7. Obligatory Femininity and Sexual Harassment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
In Too Few Women at the Top, Kumiko Nemoto draws on theoretical insights regarding Japan's coordinated capitalism and institutional stasis to challenge claims that the surge in women's education and employment will logically lead to the decline of gender inequality and eventually improve women's status in the Japanese workplace.
9781501706219
Sex discrimination in employment--Japan.
Electronic books.
HD6060.5.J3
331.4/1330952
Too Few Women at the Top : The Persistence of Inequality in Japan. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (293 pages)
TOO FEW WOMEN AT THE TOP -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Sex Segregation in Japanese Business -- 2. The Japanese Way of Change: Recasting Institutional Coordination, Sustaining Gender Inequality -- 3. Sex Segregation in Five Japanese Companies -- 4. Women as Cheap Labor: Salaries, Promotions, Ghettos, and the Culture of Woman Blaming -- 5. Production and Navigation of Gender Bias: Heroic Masculinity, Female Misogyny, and Queen Bees -- 6. Thwarted Ambitions and Sympathy: Long Working Hours, Sex Segregation, and the Price of Masculinity -- 7. Obligatory Femininity and Sexual Harassment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
In Too Few Women at the Top, Kumiko Nemoto draws on theoretical insights regarding Japan's coordinated capitalism and institutional stasis to challenge claims that the surge in women's education and employment will logically lead to the decline of gender inequality and eventually improve women's status in the Japanese workplace.
9781501706219
Sex discrimination in employment--Japan.
Electronic books.
HD6060.5.J3
331.4/1330952