Isabel Reynolds – Reuters news – Thurs 13 Nov, 2008
Michiko Achilles REUTERS Image/Toru Hanai
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) – Michiko Achilles blasted through the “iron ceiling” that blocks many Japanese women’s careers when she became a director at a bank this year, but an international survey shows her compatriots are falling behind.
She is among a handful of women breaking new ground. In September, Yuriko Koike became the first woman to stand for the leadership of the main ruling party and this week Naoko Yamazaki was picked as the second Japanese woman to go into space.
But a survey released this week by the World Economic Forum, a Swiss think tank known for its annual leadership summit in Davos, ranked Japan 98th of 130 countries in terms of gender discrimination, by far the lowest among the major industrialized countries. . .
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