Cool! I wonder if she's just a soundless 'symbol'..
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Cool! I wonder if she's just a soundless 'symbol'..
Captain Japan wrote:
Can't wait to see what she does for Daiei...
Or tea.Captain Japan wrote:That can't be "feminine sensibility." It sounds like she's serving dinner...
Didn't Europe have them before Japan?..Captain Japan wrote:Ok then, who invented the Race Queen?
March 7 (Bloomberg) -- That faint cracking noise heard around Japan this week is the sound of its glass ceiling being breached.
At least that's the hope as this male-dominated society waits to see if a woman will run a major Japanese company for the first time. BMW Tokyo Corp. President Fumiko Hayashi, 58, has been proposed for the presidency of retailer Daiei Inc.
Never mind it's among the most thankless jobs in Japan -- Daiei is perhaps the nation's most notorious zombie company -- it would be an important step forward. Japan has done little to empower women and many companies are reluctant to increase their role in making decisions.
Stories like Hayashi's -- if she does get the top Daiei job or at the least is named a corporate director -- are all too rare in the world's No. 2 economy. Japan has been slow to realize underutilizing its female workforce is an economic problem that indirectly adds to its huge public debt.
Women here have made strides rising through the ranks. Discrimination has been formally banned. More and more women are trading in their office-lady, or OL, uniforms that make them look like 1970s airhostesses and forging their own future. Yet women still have few chances to enter the executive suite, unless they're serving tea to the men who work there or, at best, playing a supporting role.
Corporate Women Directors International, a U.S. non-profit organization, last year pointed out that only two women sit on the boards of 27 Japanese companies listed on Fortune's Global 200 list. All 78 U.S. companies on the list had at least one female board member....the rest...
American Oyaji wrote:It would take a Japanese woman to introduce that.
Struggling electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. said its chairwoman, Tomoyo Nonaka, resigned on Monday, ending her career as one of a few top female executives at a major Japanese company. Nonaka's resignation comes as the company faces an investigation by Japan's securities watchdog into possible accounting problems and heads for its third straight annual loss due to heavy restructuring costs and sluggish sales. Before the announcement, the Nikkei business daily reported Nonaka was resigning after her proposals for a thorough internal investigation into Sanyo's accounting irregularities was met with objections from the board of directors. But Sanyo said in a statement Nonaka was resigning for personal reasons. Company spokesman Akihiko Oiwa also said the board had already agreed to conduct an internal probe into the accounting matter, even if some members may have disagreed on details...more...
Mulboyne wrote:"Daiei Inc. Chairwoman Fumiko Hayashi urges customers to try the firm's new recooked products"
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