Osaka Group Shames Japan on Wage Gap
Documenting Inequality to the UN
A group made up of working women in Osaka is sending its damning findings on wage inequality to the UN committee charged with monitoring compliance with the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which Japan signed in 1985. The main culprit: a dual-track system in Japan that favors men. “We will point out that Japan needs to create a law to guarantee equal pay for equal jobs and establish a system to evaluate employees without gender bias,” said Shizuko Koedo, chairwoman of the group, which has 800 members nationwide.
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