Japanese Prime Minister Junichuro Koizumi’s cabinet has aimed to fill one third of all leadership positions with female managers by the year 2020, with the help of a gender equality plan.



This is being proposed in response to Japan’s dipping birth rate. As more than two-thirds of women do not return to work after childbirth, due to lack of support from the employers, the Japanese workforce is going on getting thinner due to the absence of women.



The plan includes:



1. Flexible working hours and proper training programmes to women who return to work after maternity.

2. Special arrangements will be made to provide special space for childcare centers.

3. Provisions of financial support for women entrepreneurs.



I think these kinds of arrangements are needed not only in Japan but rest of the world as well. The reason being the fact that large number of women end up quitting their jobs just because they have got a new responsibility in shape of a baby and they cannot devote their best to the job. But with arrangements like these I don’t think any women will prefer sitting at home. Most of them will love the idea of working with their baby somewhere around their office.



Via : BBC