DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i01.009

Pages: 43-49

In Japan, female’s participation in the workforce has not progressed as much as that in other developed countries. It always remained below 50%. The age-group specific labor force participation rate is highest in the age group 25-29. Female workers are not evenly distributed in every sector. Most of female workers work in clerical related, services or sales sector. There is very low percentage of females in the administrative and managerial posts. Companies don’t want to promote females to higher posts. Women mostly work as part-time worker on contract basis. In Japan, the employment pattern of females changes throughout their lives. In the beginning maximum females join the work force as regular employee. But with increasing age, the percentage of regular female employee decreases while non-regular employee increases. Regular female employees leave their job when they got married and give birth to their first child. Later they join the work force when their children grow up but as non-regular workers. The government of Japan needs to be careful about its female labor force. Because, during the phage of declining and aging population, females are the only hope of Japan to maintain its economic growth.