Empowerment In Japan

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CHAPTER III THEORETICAL BACKGROUNDS As the two previous chapters have suggested, promoting women at executive roles in the Japanese workplace would be one of the key factor to overcome Japan’s aging society problem. Taking this fact into consideration, discovering the possible determinants of women executive rate among the 47 prefectures of Japan would prove to be helpful for future economic growth. This chapter will project major hypotheses that could possibly explain the determining factors of the women executive rate. The hypothesis are classified into educational, income, household, political and child factors. Highly established theories and historical statistics are presented in this chapter to support the hypotheses. 1. Educational Factor The assumption based on educational factor is that, the higher the university entrance rate, the higher the women executive rate. Education is the key to the empowerment of women, since it enables women to become more productive both inside and outside the household. Research has shown that post-primary education has the greatest pay-off for encouraging women to enter the workforce, and it increases income earning opportunities and decision-making autonomy (Cheston and Kuhn, 2002). …show more content…

Women who have experienced higher education would be more valued in the labor force than those women without tertiary education (Mackinnon, 2010). Education is, therefore, necessary to gain skills required to compete in the labor market. Considering a situation without access to education and the ability to use it, it will be hard to provide women hard work. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development states that “high graduation rates at university level indicate a country’s capacity to develop a highly skilled labor force” (OECD,

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