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This is a plot of non-adjusted pay gaps (median earnings of full-time employees) according to the OECD. Gender pay gap of employees in OECD countries [117] Ratio of female to male salaries according to the Save the Children State of the World's Mothers report (2007 data). Each color along the spectrum from red to violet represents 5% of the ...
Labor force participation rate (15-64 age) in Japan, by sex [2] Gender wage gap in OECD [7]. Japan is now facing a shortage of labor caused by two major demographic problems: a shrinking population because of a low fertility rate, which was 1.4 per woman in 2009, [8] and replacement of the postwar generation which is the biggest population range [9] who are now around retirement age.
Shown are the fractions of the total gender wage gap accounted for by different labor-market variables. "Occupation" for example, refers to gender differences in occupation (i.e. lawyer vs. teacher). The "unexplained" percentage refers to the residual that remains after all other factors are accounted for – it is often seen as discrimination.
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In 2005, Japan had a gender wage gap of 32.8 percent, which decreased to 25.7 percent in 2017. Japan has the third highest wage gap in the OECD. [40] The country's long work hours create an environment that reinforces the wage gap because there is a disproportional difference between how much time men and women spend on paid and unpaid work. [40]
The wage gap could trace back to the kinds of computer science jobs women work—more likely to be lower-paying than men—but that only accounts for about a third of the gap, the researchers wrote.
Japan is considering requiring companies' annual reports to disclose average wages by gender and the ratio of female managers, said two people with direct knowledge of the matter, as it seeks to ...
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