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Nov 4-5 2017

5 potential topics regarding economic developmental policy in Japan:

• Question
  • Is the topic I choose this also the topic for the case study?
    • yes
  • Is it more appropriate to focus on government reports or research papers?
    • in my case, look at more research papers that have theories on economical aspects of gender inequality.
  • Is the final paper for the wiki assignment?
    • yes. The final paper is the case study.
• Robotics (Big topic in the U.S. lots of research paper about this one)
  • Too narrow of a topic?
  • Didn't find related wiki article on this
    • closest:
      • Japanese robotics
  • Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry
    • http://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2015/pdf/0123_01b.pdf
• Female empowerment (see Dec 19 Notes)
  • 3 times more search result than robots on google scholar and ebsco.
• Education
  • http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/hakusho/html/hpab201201/detail/1344908.htm
• Debt payment
• Feedback
  • page :
    • economic impact of gender inequality.
    • gender differences human capital ....
    • gender participation.
    • wiki article is like a mini summary of final paper.
  • talk again what would be a good wiki article once I explore more papers

Dec 19

• Checked to find knowledge gap: Category:Economy of Japan
• I will work on the third idea (female empowerment) from Nov 4-5 blog
• Find theories on female empowerment.
• papers in Japan-particularities about Japanese economy
• disadvantage of kids bearing in work-theory.
• paper on sector
• see impact of gender equality

Dec 20

• Assignment description
  •  Wikipedia: The motivation behind this assignment is for each student to create a public good in the field of development and to improve this way the public understanding of a particular topic or case.This contribution should be based on rigorous social scientific knowledge.
  • Case Study: The main objective of this assignment is to interpret the economic trajectory of a particular country in the light of the theories discussed during the semester, and to explore how its current development was been shaped by other international and domestic factors. The maximum number of pages for this assignment is 15.
• Brainstorming for narrowed down topic:
  • (The impact of/ the degree of success) Abe Government's Economic Development Policy on Female Empowerment (Womenomics) in Public and Private Sectors
  • The Impact of Womenomics Policy on Japan's Public and Private Sector Economic Growth
    • Public Sector
    • Private Sector
  • Impact of Abe-Driven Womenomics on Japan's Economic Growth
  • wiki title:
    • Womenomics under Shinzo Abe (I verified that there is no article similar to this, although "Feminism in Japan" has a section about Womenomics. I plan to elaborate, or link my article there.)
      • Overview
      • Context
        • Coinage of the term
• Find social scientific research about development policies around the world regarding female empowerment identify strength, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to the policy.
  • SWOT analysis could be useful for analysing current female labor force.
• Goal: write 15 pages double spaced.
• No mention of female empowerment in Abenomics Wikipedia article.

Dec 24

• In process of revamping article for publication.

Notes

Research

• difference in education
  • Comparison between other OECD countries.
• Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office (wiki exists: Gender Equality Bureau)
  • http://www.gender.go.jp/policy/mieruka/pdf/joukyou_2014_e_1.pdf
  • Brief Summary:
    • http://www.gender.go.jp/english_contents/basic_data/resarches/pdf/english-2.pdf
    • Descriptions of "Women's Active Participation" in Reports on Corporate Gobernance 2014
• Lee
  • Separate Spheres or Increasing Equality? Changing Gender Beliefs in Postwar Japan
• World Bank Group
  • https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/9115/WDR2012-0027.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
• EBSCO search
  • Implications of Abenomics on Gender Equality in Japan and Its Conformity with CEDAW
• Report produced by Kathy Matsui: Goldman Sachs | Our Thinking - Womenomics 4.0: Time to Walk the Talk
  • results
  • government policy recommendation
• "Five Years On, Where Does Abe's 'Womenomics' Stand?"
• "Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline"
  • Goes onto detail about Japan's depopulation

Related Wikipedia Articles

There seems to be a lot wiki articles on Japanese women in general and good research papers, so I should maybe focus on female empowerment policy by Abe administration to have novelty in my article

• working women in Japan.

• women in Japan
  • see section on professional life
• kyariauman
  • The Changing Role of Women’s Earnings in Marriage Formation in Japan
• Feminism in Japan
  • See section on Labor
• Kathy Matsui
  • Coined Womenomics. increasing female participation in workforce to the same level as men, will increase Japan's GDP. Womenomics influence Abenomics.

Womenomics, in Japanese politics, refers to one of the main economical reform policies in Abenomics with regard to improving female participation in the Japanese workforce. The term Womenomics was coined by Kathy Matsui, who influenced Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his economical reform of Japan since his second term of power.

Context

As in other developed countries, depopulation in Japan is a concomitant of highly developed economy. Japan's depopulation began in 2005 due to decreasing birth rate, and by 2030, it's population is forecasted to shrink by 30% and reach elderly ratio of 40% (See Demography of Japan for more information about Japanese population). One of the consequences of such decline in particular is the shortage of labor force, among tax yield, national pension system, social structure, and immigration policy.

Although increasing, female labor participation in Japan has been low compared to that of male. (see Kyariaūman)

Policies

Abe, among other economical development policies in Abenomics, included female empowerment in LDP's 2012 House of Representatives Election Manifest. In the manifest, he introduces a goal to increase the proportion of female senior managerial positions in every field of Japanese society to 30% by 2020. During the 2013 House of Councillors Election, Abe reiterated this goal in addition to promising that his government will facilitate female entrepreneurship through local community outreach and NPO actives, as well as support businesses that promotes employee's child-care leave and work-life-balance. In 2014, he proposed to expand female workforce by increasing daycare capacity, promoting telework, increasing female recruitment in fields ranging from STEM research to automotive industry, passing relevant laws, raising the proportion of female in the national diet, and changing the societal mindset about gender roles.

According to their 2017 election manifest, Abe administration will aim to pass a bipartisan (along with Democratic Party (Japan)) legislation that promotes equal gender participation in Japanese political field, including a goal to equalize the gender ratio of election candidates within each political party.

Implementation

Since February 2013, the Cabinet Office has been requesting businesses to voluntarily publicise their corporate data on gender-related statistics.

On 2016, Abe passed through the national diet, the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace (女性活躍推進法), imposing both public and private companies of more than 300 employees to disclose data on gender inequality in their workplace and to devise action plans that addresses it.

Female labor force, although increasing, has been lower compared to that of men due to various factors.

Economic Impact

Between 2010 and 2014, Japan's overall female labor participation rate rose from 60% to 62.5% for ages between 15 to 64, while that of male has stayed at around 80%. An explanation to this is that more women are working part-time while the number of newly hired male work force is equivalent to that of the baby boom generation (late 1940s to early 1950s) that retires.

Daycare facilities in Japan, as of 2013, can hold up to 2.29 million children, compared to 2.16 million from 2009, and around 23,000 on waitlist (待機児童).

As of December 2013, around 550 firms, to a varying extent, voluntarily publicised information on gender-related statistics as requested by the Cabinet Office earlier in February 2013.

Issues

Despite some improvements in the Japanese economy were cited by Kathy Matsui, Japan still ranks poorly on certain gender equality indices. For instance, Japan was ranked 105th out of 136 countries.