Gender Inequalities in the Japanese Workplace and Employment: Theories and Empirical Evidence

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Impediments to the Advancement of Women in the Japanese Employment System: Theoretical Overview and the Purpose of This Book -- 1.1 Introduction: Basic Facts on Gender Inequality in Employment -- 1.2 Analysis of the Japanese Employment System -- 1.2.1 Main Points of Discussion -- 1.2.2 Strategic Rationality and Limitations of the Japanese Employment System and Practices -- 1.2.3 Institutional Causes of the Strong Persistence of the Traditional Division of Household Labor for Married Couples -- 1.2.4 Statistical Discrimination Against Women and Its Irrationality -- 1.2.5 "Dysfunction" of Japanese Employment Practices -- 1.3 Strategy for Analysis and Organization of This Book -- Appendix: A Non-technical Explanation of Rubin's Causal Model -- References -- 2 Determinants of the Gender Gap in the Proportion of Managers Among White-Collar Regular Employees -- 2.1 Introduction: On the Intermediary Causes of the Gender Wage Gap -- 2.2 Realities of the Disparity in the Proportion of Managerial Positions Between Men and Women -- 2.3 Analytical Strategy and Main Hypotheses -- 2.4 Method of Statistical Analysis -- 2.4.1 Decomposition Analysis of the Gender Gap in the Proportion of Managers -- 2.4.2 Analysis of the Gender Gap in the Proportion of Managers Unexplained by Gender Differences in Explanatory Variables -- 2.5 Analysis Results -- 2.5.1 Data Employed for Analysis -- 2.5.2 Influence of Gender Differences in Educational Attainment, Age, and Years of Service on the Gender Gap in the Proportion of Managers -- 2.5.3 Analysis of Interaction Effects Between Gender and Individual and Firm Characteristics on the Proportion of Managers and Supervisors -- 2.6 Conclusions and Policy Implications -- Appendix 1: The BO and DFL Methods for Decomposition Analysis.