October 08, 2015
The Washington Post deserves credit for being the first major media outlet to discover the sharp increase in women’s labor force participation in Japan. It ran a piece headlined, “How American women fell behind Japanese women in the workplace,” which pointed out that employment rates are now higher for women in Japan than for the United States. (The difference in employment rates would be even larger if the article focused on prime-age — 25–54 — women.)
This shift has been clear in the OECD data for several years, but has been almost completely ignored. (There have been a few rants on the topic at BTP, for example here, here, and here.) Anyhow, it is always good to see the media discovering major trends in the world, even if they might be a bit slow to notice.
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