Gender Inequalities in the Japanese Workplace and Employment

Kazuo Yamaguchi is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology and a faculty member of the Department of Sociology, a faculty member of the Committee on Quantitative Studies of Health, Behavioral, and Social Sciences, a faculty fellow in the Center of International Social Science Research, and a board member of the Graham School of Continuing and Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Chicago. Since 2003, he has also been a visiting fellow during the summer at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan. He was formerly Hanna Gray Professor of Sociology and the Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Before becoming a professor at the University of Chicago in 1991, he taught at Columbia University and UCLA after receiving a Ph.D. in sociology in 1981 at the University of Chicago. Besides the study of Japanese society, his primary areas of research include quantitative methodology, social stratification and inequality, work andfamily, mathematical models (especially rational choice models), and drug-use progressions and their relation to life course.

• 1 Impediments to the Advancement of Women in the Japanese Employment System: Theoretical Overview and the Purpose of this Book.- 2 Determinants of the Gender Gap in the Proportion of Managers Among White-Collar Regular Employees.- 3 Chapter 3 Causes and Effects of Gender Occupational Segregation: Overlooked Obstacles to Gender Equality.- 4 Gender Income Disparity Among White-Collar Regular Employees: Explaining the Causes Responsible for 80% of the Disparity and Its Mechanisms.- 5 Impacts of Companies’ Promotion of Work–Life Balance and the Restrictive Regular Employment System on Gender Wage Gap.- 6 Empowerment of Women in the Workplace and Labor Productivity: Which Company Policies Are Effective and Why.- 7 Statistical and Indirect Discrimination: Revisiting the Incentive Problem.- 8 Gender Inequality and Its Irrationality: Implications from the Analytical Results.- Index.