Ms. Watanabe’s Profession
While productivity in Japanese factories is the highest in the world, owing to robots and other types of automation, the productivity of Japan’s white-collar workers is the lowest among OECD countries. This disparity, rooted in deep-seated inequality of employment opportunity for women, may now finally receive the attention it needs.
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TOKYO – Ms. Watanabe, age 40, is hesitant. Her mother, Mrs. Watanabe, is known for moving the world’s markets with the financial trading that occupies her breaks from housework.