Business Sep 2, 2021
Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place for women?
by Malcolm Foster
The country is pushing to digitally modernize itself, but one of the developed world’s starkest gender gaps is holding it back.
Business / Corporate Aug 26, 2021
Few women ascend Japan’s corporate ladder. Is change finally coming?
by Ben Dooley
Only 6% of board seats at Japanese companies are held by women. After years of unfulfilled promises, these businesses are now facing pressure both at home and abroad to diversify.
Business Aug 8, 2017
Internet giant Google has fired the male engineer at the center of an uproar in Silicon Valley over the past week after he authored an internal memo asserting there are biological causes behind gender inequality in the tech industry. James Damore, the engineer who wrote ...
National / Social Issues Apr 6, 2016
Program targets social barriers for people with disabilities
by Nobuhiro Ishizuka
Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the enactment of a law banning discrimination against people with disabilities on April 1, a program called Disability Equality Training has attracted attention from municipalities and universities in Japan. The program is aimed at raising awareness mainly among ...
Commentary / World Sep 15, 2015
Clues to why a woman can't be more like a man
by Megan Mcardle
A recent scientific study suggests that hormones may be responsible for the differences in men's and women's brains.
Commentary / World Apr 18, 2014
Restoring balance to LBJ's presidential record
by Albert R. Hunt
Although only 20 percent of polled Americans rate Lyndon B. Johnson an above-average president — a lower ranking than George W. Bush or Jimmy Carter — the 36th president left a civil rights and medical welfare legacy that changed the fabric of today's society.
Lifestyle Feb 10, 2014
Marrying an equal could be boosting inequality
by Peter Orszag
Rich and poor Americans are slowly but surely staking out separate lives — moving to different communities and marrying people of similar income and backgrounds.
Business / Economy Apr 25, 2013
Wealth inequality widened dramatically during the first two years of the economic recovery, as the upper 7 percent of American households saw their average net worth increase 28 percent while the wealth of the other 93 percent declined, according to a report released Tuesday. The ...