Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may be moving to include more women in the Japanese workforce. This could be a powerful economic reform (bolding in the quote is mine):
By expanding what are too often tightly circumscribed career opportunities for women, from the executive suite on down, Abe said he hoped to draw more women into employment and reverse a decline in the country’s working population that has constrained output and stretched public finances.
Japan’s Abe: Too few women in boardrooms
For background on Japanese women’s status in the workplace, this article from Noah Smith: Will Abe address Japan’s number one problem after all?
