TEDxTokyo - Kathy Matsui - Womenomics - [English]

[greenbeanery2]

Agree with RCF - more total workers = less money per worker. Great for corporations, bad for workers.

[greenbeanery2]

If wages and savings interest rates keep falling while daily living costs (food + energy) keep rising, who wants to "work" or have kids?

[romancandlefight]

probably wise to remember that this is a one-sided argument. e.g. the birthrates might be higher where participation is higher in the current environment, but not in the recent past (and possibly future)..... also, to employ a woman in many cases might mean not employing a man.. (number of jobs are limited) etc..... those are just a couple of egs I dreamt up -- let me know if i'm wrong here

I would expect that population density has the highest (neg) correlation with birth rates

[kihokahoka]

Japan is a conservative society based on unspoken consensus, a by-product of the Japanese culture itself. Despite a few brave souls, the majority of Japanese are quite content with the status quo, and are willing to trade economic progress and increased diversity for the comfort of egalitarian, uniculture way of living especially in the uncertain world of today. Economic empires rise and fall and Japan is no exception.

[blackpassenger]

Matsui San, Im very happy you came around and began embracing affirmative action. I think that japanese women like my wife will do well in Japan. Thanks to my direction, with an LLM and an MBA from the west, she will be one of those role models to japanese women.

[blackpassenger]

Dude, I said all these things in my 2009 book, 'Black Passenger Yellow Cabs: A Memoir of Exile and Excess in Japan. I love Japan, been living here since 2001. But Japan is hopeless collectively. Japan would rather cut off its nose and spite its face, than make major changes. That being said, there have been some improvements since my arrival a decade ago. But boy, it has been teeth extractingly slow. Ganbatte Matsui San.