Japanese CEOs boldly going where no women have gone before

 Currently, when it comes to fundraising, being a venture capitalist is a boys club, 

Elizabeth Holmes is proof that that simply isn't true.

Okajima suggested there is an unconscious bias in women's ability to perform mathematics and science.

This is common in most countries. Thousands of women get dissuaded from studying math and science in grade school. It's not the feminist education programs fault. It is the male misogynist education system that is denying women from pursuing their desired choices.

 in Japan, a country that was 120th among 156 countries in the gender-gap rankings in 2021

That's desperately sad and appalling. Japan should be ashamed of itself. So much for being a 1st world country.

Japan had the lowest share of women studying science among 36 comparable Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries in 2019 -- the proportion of women entering natural sciences, mathematics and statistics at the tertiary education level sat at 27 percent, far below the OECD average of 52 percent, the organization's latest annual report showed.

Again, sad and appalling. Way to not utilize half of your population and provide them the opportunities that would benefit them and the country. At the rate Japan's going, they're going to run themselves into the ground and become obsolete.

@xamurai

Time to flip the script then. We need to encourage and normalise stay at home fathers and house husbands and encourage mothers to become the breadwinners of the family. This will also improve the birthrate as women are more willing to have more children if the father commits to an active role in the child rearing process.

This is common in most countries. Thousands of women get dissuaded from studying math and science in grade school. It's not the feminist education programs fault. It is the male misogynist education system that is denying women from pursuing their desired choices.

No, girls are not dissuaded from studying math and science growing up. Plenty of them do. Girls are more likely to excel in school than males.

It’s just that fewer females on average are interested in things as opposed to relationships. It’s that simple. There are of course plenty of exceptions but the general rule consistently holds true. Even in rigidly egalitarian nations such as in Scandinavia, females choose not to be in engineering and other science based professions in higher percentages than males. It’s just a fact. It likely has more to do with Darwinism and brain chemistry than the specter of evil misogynists.

Now women dominate professions in the West that were once all male. Teachers are disproportionately female. In the West, males make up a minority of college admissions. Men are also way more likely to be imprisoned than females - does that prove misandry is also running rampant? I think not. There are differences between men and women despite what the Left tells you.

@Wolfpack

At my university and others all across the country, the number of women enrolling in STEM and Engineering disciplines is increasing significantly. In Civil Engineering for example, my cohort had slightly more than 50% women this year. And this is because more women are starting to consciously accept Engineering as an attractive career path in the same way that they used to with Law, Commerce and Medicine.

I'm pretty sure the biggest reason for this is the increased visibility of female engineers as role models in the industry that is being perceived by prospective girls studying science in high school. That has definitely paid off.

"Our shooting stars can be so bright that they can be seen from cities such as Tokyo," said Okajima, adding that potential clients include governments that could use the service to wow tourists.

Imagine having a business reliant on tourists in Japan in the present day?

You’d be out of business…

Please challenge.

@mobius217:

I'm pretty sure the biggest reason for this is the increased visibility of female engineers as role models in the industry that is being perceived by prospective girls studying science in high school. That has definitely paid off.

I’m pretty sure that the reason is because there is a huge push to increase females in STEM at universities. I have a relative in a university right now in an engineering major. She was offered scholarships and other incentives. She is smart and enjoys her major. Her classmates are still overwhelmingly male despite the conscious effort to discriminate in favor of females in admissions. Females dominant college admissions overall and in non-STEM majors.

@Wolfpack

I graduated from highschool last year, and I can say for sure that the girls easily outperformed the boys in the university entrance exams, and did especially well in math and science. This is true in the rest of my country. The problem is that most of the girls seem obsessed with idea of persuing careers in Law, Medicine and Business. These are seen as the "high status, well paying jobs" of the social ladder, especially among asian girls. Engineering was often seen as boys club (its not anymore over here). One girl who was very interested in engineering was worried that there would be too many boys in the course. I had to explain to her that it really is not that bad.

So yes there are specialised scholarships and affirmative action programs aimed at girls for STEM, but they play little to no role in getting more women in engineering. It really boils down to the negative perceptions that women previously had with STEM. So now that Engineering has joined the club of "high status, well paying jobs" more girls are choosing it. And to be fair a lot of the boys chose Engineering for the same reason as the girls.

Here is my thinking, based on what I have seen so far Japanese women are just fine what the current situation, no mistake about who is in charge at home, and in the backgrounds, and they do not wish to beat the drums of Equal Opportunity, they are in control, most men know it and they are fine with it too.

MarkNov. 18  12:38 am JST

Here is my thinking, based on what I have seen so far Japanese women are just fine what the current situation, no mistake about who is in charge at home, and in the backgrounds, and they do not wish to beat the drums of Equal Opportunity, they are in control, most men know it and they are fine with it too.

Right. That is the way it is here.