Sexism Stands in Way of ’Abenomics’ Saving Japan
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May 27 (Bloomberg) -- No one needs a lean-in movement likeJapan’s women.
I had this conversation in Tokyo 12 years ago with SherylSandberg, long before she joined Facebook Inc. and wrote herbook on female empowerment. We were listening to her boss at thetime, U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, speak about theneed for structural reforms to the Japanese economy, in a giantauditorium devoid of women. It was one of several male-dominatedevents that day. The author of “Lean In” leaned over and askedme half-seriously: “There ARE women in this country, right?”