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Too Few Women at the Top : The Persistence of Inequality in Japan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (293 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501706219
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Too Few Women at the TopDDC classification:
  • 331.4/1330952
LOC classification:
  • HD6060.5.J3
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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