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- From: harumi@leland.Stanford.EDU (harumi ito)
- Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.050751.8476@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: Harumi Ito
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <BzKy05.3Lz@jrd.dec.com> <1992Dec21.190036.1892@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <BzMtFr.H0q@jrd.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 05:07:51 GMT
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- In article <BzMtFr.H0q@jrd.dec.com> doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi) writes:
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- >Maybe they don't want the net access and privileges..
-
- I do want my net access and privilege... :-)
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- >In Japan's society I think most women are "brainwashed" so that they
- >don't want to be equal with men at the workplace.
- >Of course there are some women who do. But this is a very small
- >minority, I think.
-
- Is "they don't want to be equal" right rhetoric here?
-
- Being a wife and a mother involve heavier responsiblities
- and deeper committment in Japan than it does in the U.S.
- Maybe, many women choose more flexible career paths because
- of these family obligations, etc. But, it does not
- necessarily means that "they don't want to be equal with men
- at the workplace." Suppose that Japanese daycare systems
- got much better and that Japanese husbands in general got
- more involved in family chores. Would Japanese women still
- "don't want to be equal with men at the workplace"?
-
- Furthermore, are the small minority of Japanese women who
- "want to be equal with men at the workplace" getting their
- fair chances? Maybe not. If an average HANAKO looks around
- and finds more able and more ambitious women having tough time
- in the workplace, she might be extremely discouraged and
- switch to more family oriented lifestyle. Given opportunities
- and right envioronments, this HANAKO might have wanted to be
- equal with men at the workplace.
-
- If we look around, there are not so many Japanese women climbing
- corporate ladders or whatever smoothly. But, it seems a little
- to early to conclude that they just don't want it.
-
- I mean no flame, really. But, just wanted to put my two cents
- worth.
-
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