Global Development

Women and International Affairs

REUTERS/Toru Hanai - Japanese job-hunting students dressed in suits attend a business manners seminar at a placement centre in Tokyo May 28, 2012.

Past Event

From Abenomics to Womenomics: Working Women and Japan’s Economic Revival

September 25, 2013

On September 25, the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies hosted a public seminar examining the opportunities and challenges for the Shinzo Abe government to meaningfully improve the role of women in the workforce, obstacles to female professional development, prospects for implementing proposed reforms, and future steps to promote professional women as female role models.

Recent Activity

  • In the News

    The bottom line is, the women's situation [in Japan] is not going to improve until you address more fundamental equity issues.

    September 10, 2013, Mireya Solís, Los Angeles Times
  • In the News

    It's pretty clear that at the last minute, a lot of women made a decision that Obama really understood what their economic concerns were. Yes, they want control over their own body...but decisions over health care can limit their ability to control economics as well.

    November 9, 2012, Elisabeth Jacobs, CBS News
  • In the News

    I have no doubt the next president will decide what happens to Roe v. Wade by his appointments to the Supreme Court.

    October 3, 2012, Elisabeth Jacobs, Glamour