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Volume 2, Issue 4
1 April 1983
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Review Article| April 01 1983

Progressing Slowly: Equality Legislation in Japan Available to Purchase

Renate Herold
Renate Herold
Has written on industrial relations in West Germany and Japan, including a book on Japanese women in employment (“Die Blume am Arbeitsplatz — Japans Frauen im Beruf”, Tubingen, 1980). Living in Japan since 1970, she is a correspondent for economic papers in Europe and a lecturer at St. Paul's University in Tokyo as well as an instructor at the Foreign Service Training Institute of Japan.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7093
Print ISSN: 0261-0159
© MCB UP Limited
1983
Equal Opportunities International (1983) 2 (4): 22–24.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010389

Japan's Ministry of Labour is expected to propose an equality law in order to adjust Japanese laws to the spirit of the Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, which Japan is to ratify in 1985. The Japan Federation of Employers' Associations are objecting strongly to the prospect of having to employ everyone according to qualification without differentiating according to sex.

Keywords:
Japan, Discrimination, Equal Employment Opportunities
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