Goldman’s Matsui Turns Abe to Womenomics for Japan Growth
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When her sister graduated from Harvard University in 1981, Kathy Matsui’s father gave her a choice: Get accepted, or get ready for a lifetime of labor raising roses.
From the farm in Salinas, California, to Harvard and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in Tokyo, the family work ethic has underpinned a career that lifted Matsui to the top of her profession. Now, 14 years after publishing her ideas on how to upend gender roles in the Japanese workforce under a doctrine known as womenomics, Matsui has the ear of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who made her research into a plank of his growth plan.