Progressing Slowly: Equality Legislation in Japan
Renate Herold
(Has written on industrial relations in West Germany and Japan, including a book on Japanese women in employment (“Die Blume am Arbeitsplatz — Japans Frauen im Beruf”, Tubingen, 1980). Living in Japan since 1970, she is a correspondent for economic papers in Europe and a lecturer at St. Paul's University in Tokyo as well as an instructor at the Foreign Service Training Institute of Japan.)
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Abstract
Japan's Ministry of Labour is expected to propose an equality law in order to adjust Japanese laws to the spirit of the Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, which Japan is to ratify in 1985. The Japan Federation of Employers' Associations are objecting strongly to the prospect of having to employ everyone according to qualification without differentiating according to sex.
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Citation
Herold, R. (1983), "Progressing Slowly: Equality Legislation in Japan", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 22-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010389
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1983, MCB UP Limited