Abe’s Woman Manager Target Seen Difficult to Meet
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Daiwa Securities Group Inc. and Goldman Sachs Japan Co. said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s goal to have women in 30 percent of management jobs by 2020 will be difficult to achieve, citing a lack of candidates.
“We now recruit exactly the same numbers of men and women,” Shigeharu Suzuki, chairman of Daiwa Securities Group, said yesterday in a diversity forum held at Bloomberg’s Tokyo offices. “That was not the case in the past and unfortunately we are not going to reach the target because we don’t have enough people in the pipeline. Even if we promoted at an even rate, we would be around 15 percent or maybe a touch above by 2020.”