Japanese Women and Changing Jobs: Update Nov. 29, 2024.

5 times more women in Japan changed jobs in 2023 than 10 years earlier: report

Article Source: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241118/p2a/00m/0bu/018000c

Ideas:
The work environment in 2013 was much different that today, in 2024, as women in Japan, relatively, have more options to choose from and not just a low-level clerks in some company, which is what it was for a long time in Japan.

All kinds of work skills are now seen as important including housework and raising children which both require a multitude of skills.

Most likely Japanese women are not satisfied with just being a low-level clerk and they seem more opportunities these days in many kinds of work.

There is also the idea that inflation is forcing many women to seek better jobs and maybe a low-level skilled job just doesn't pay that much along with idea that these days even if both husband and wife work it might be enough.

Maybe it became very apparent in Japan that women are a valuable resource to be utilized and companies are waking up to that fact along the idea of a so-called labor shortage has forced companies to see women as more valuable workers these days.

The real key in the future will be how many Japanese women are going to be in the upper levels of management of companies and again not just low-level clerks or even the bottom levels of management in a Japanese company.

Japan usually changes at a very slow pace, but every once in while there is a sudden synergistic change that does take place in Japan. This might be one of those synergistic changes that completely changes the work environment in Japan.

Again, most likely the current inflation situation in Japan, has forced the 40 something women to seek better work and better pay and maybe the jobs they had along with their husbands job just wasn't enough and especially if they had children,

Maybe too companies, because of the so-called labor shortage in Japan are re-thinking what are important skills out there that we need to be tapping into. So its better to be a good time for working women in Japan and they don't have to just be forced into low-level clerk type jobs.

Exactly, as companies are facing the severe labor shortage in Japan, they are waking up to the fact that there is a gold-mine of experience out there just waiting to be hired by companies.

Not to get too caried away here but it might be that women have more multitasking skills than men along with all their skills related to housework and raising children while men might just be one-dimensional while women are more multi-dimensional.

Maybe in years past, in Japan, women's self-esteem was much lower and they might have thought they didn't have any skills worth promoting,

But the world has changed significantly, and again, this might be one of those moments in Japan that is synergistic and will revolutionize the work environment in Japan in the future.

Japan companies and society is a facing a significant labor shortage. While increases in immigration of global skills into Japan is needed and important, its very slow process, and unfortunately, Japan is still unwilling to open the flood gates to global workers around the world. 

But, again, there is a gold mine within Japan just waiting to be utilized and just maybe Japanese companies are beginning to understand they have a potential workforce, in Japanese women, ready and willing to meet the needs of Japanese companies.

Have a nice day!