Gender Discrimination
Tokyo to tighten gender law
"TOKYO, Fri: Japan plans to toughen its gender equality law in an effort to encourage women to stay in the workforce as the population begins to shrink, a government official said today.
The Health and Welfare Ministry will propose an amendment to the 1986 law that would ban employers from treating women unfavourably because they are pregnant or have young children, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said.
Employers would also be prevented from firing a woman who was pregnant, or who had a child under a year old, unless they could prove that the employeeﾕs family situation was not the reason, the paper said.
ﾒWith the population falling, we need to create the kind of environment where talented people can make the best use of their abilities,ﾓ the official at the Health and Welfare Ministry said."
Reuters, November 19 2005
"TOKYO, Fri: Japan plans to toughen its gender equality law in an effort to encourage women to stay in the workforce as the population begins to shrink, a government official said today.
The Health and Welfare Ministry will propose an amendment to the 1986 law that would ban employers from treating women unfavourably because they are pregnant or have young children, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said.
Employers would also be prevented from firing a woman who was pregnant, or who had a child under a year old, unless they could prove that the employeeﾕs family situation was not the reason, the paper said.
ﾒWith the population falling, we need to create the kind of environment where talented people can make the best use of their abilities,ﾓ the official at the Health and Welfare Ministry said."
Reuters, November 19 2005
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