Takuzen Motoyama, 38, president of Hiroshima waste disposal company Taiyo Co. The company has made efforts to improve its working conditions and now women, including many with children, represent around 40% of its workforce.
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Earlier, we thought we'd hire women to just fill in for a shortage of male workers, but now we view them as fully equal.
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sakurasuki
Equal workload but not equal pay
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/Gender-gap-persists-in-Japan-as-women-earn-74-as-much-as-men
JeffLee
I read the fairly lengthy article, and it's ridiculous: not a single mention of pay or salary. Like, hello? The management doesn't think financial compensation might have something to do with the fact that people don't want to work there?
So they think, "Oh, I know, let's exploit desperate single moms!" One woman keeps her kids in the company's daycare center from 9 to 6 every day. The facility is fully subsidized by the govt, too, so it's not as if this company is doing anything charitable. Another case of taxpayers rescuing a greedy, exploiting businesses.
Too bad the reporter didn't figure out that this company's actions harm - rather than help - the economy overall, if not society.
Mocheake
Fully equal. Well, how nice. He runs a waste disposal company. The waste is right in his face.