According to Nintendo’s annual report published earlier this week, only 4.2% of company managers in Japan are women. This is a number that has remained unchanged since 2021, when the company formed its ‘Nintendo Women and Allies’ initiative, pledging to “promote women’s careers”
That’s not an excuse though. If you state publicy as a company that you will make changes, then it’s not unreasonable to expect those changes to actually happen.
Japanese society is very old-fashioned, male dominated, hierarchical and “I’m older than you so that means I’m right”. Japan’s cybersecurity minister admitted a couple of years ago that he had never used a computer in his life. While I understand the frustration it is (unfortunately) not surprising that these changes do not happen in a timely fashion.
This is especially true when it comes to traditional gender roles in the workplace. Women in Japan are often only hired as secretaries or “office ladies” in big companies, basically to shuffle papers and serve tea. Not exactly big decision-making roles. Heck, even making an announcement is likely a big thing in this regard for a Japanese company, if they actually follow through they could really be seen as progressive by Japanese standards.
Yeah but when it comes to corporations saying they’ll do things, its almost always just whatever garbage will benefit the company at the time, regardless of the fact they likely will never follow through.
I think the lesson is that you should never believe these statements about the future, the only times major corporations can be honest is if they’re reporting something that already happened.
It’s not really about believing them or not. It’s more just bringing attention to their bs
I don’t think its fair to look at the overall percentage. Instead, we should look into how many new managers got appointed and how many of these were woman. If that remains unchanged too, then it’s fair to complain.
I did a quick google and found a Japanese study that said the average tenure for an employee in Japan is 11 years.
op it’s going to take time for anyone to leave.
It’s literally been 2 years, and as others have said, they’re not gonna start firing people or creating positions just to boost some numbers on a spreadsheet.
it seems weird to pass over the top ranking candidate for a job (male or female) to fulfil a quota.
Racism and misogyny will not be tolerated. Everyone else is civil but we had a few reports in this thread.
