#3 Japan: Despite anti-discrimination laws and a steadily growing number of employed women, Japan is falling behind the rest of the world on gender equality. Widespread discrimination persists, and has only grown more in number over the recent past. Even though Japan is one of the world’s most industrialized countries it has always stuck to its old traditions. In the same way, traditional gender roles have always been a source of inequality in the world’s third largest economy.
Japan is third overall with a gap of 29 percent, and second among the list of developed nations. A study by the Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training found that the inequality was based mainly on occupational disparity, as opposed to gender discrimination. The types of work that Japanese women traditionally land upon include health service workers, clerical workers, professional and technical workers. The report also found that as the percentage of women workers in an industry increased, the remuneration dropped proportionately for both male and female workers.
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