Resona to Add Female Bank Managers, Narrow Japan Gender Gap
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Resona Holdings Inc., Japan’s fourth-biggest commercial bank by market value, aims to help narrow the country’s gender gap by adding female managers and appointing a woman as an executive for the first time.
The lender plans to increase the portion of female managers to 30 percent from the current 4 percent by 2020, and select a woman as an operating officer in the “near future,” Chairman Eiji Hosoya, 66, said in an interview in Tokyo. “Companies that don’t give women leading roles will be left behind.”