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barbosa2007I've been looking forward to this, because I think Sho empathizes with this issue a lot, given that he's grown up in a family with a working mother.
Firstly, he visits the Hello Work center for mothers in Yokohama and talks to the ladies there. As you can see, this particular Hello Work center caters to mothers with various facilities for children.
Sho discusses the difficulties of working mothers.
Some mothers raised how they had quit their jobs in order to have children.
Sho highlights the buzzwords surrounding women at work. Among them, you can see marriage, parenting, record high, childbirth.
An interesting and very pertinent issue which the panel highlighted was the idea of paternity leave. Although Japan allows for men to take paternity leave, it is not accepted in the workplace and is generally frowned upon. When the female MC highlighted that only 2% of men take the paternity leave they were entitled to, Sho looked visibly shocked. Another panel member highlighted how he was stigmatized by his colleagues for taking paternity leave when he had work to do. It will be difficult for women to return to work unless men and society in general recognize their responsibility in parenting.
I liked this tweet which was aired during the program:
The responsibility of looking after a child lies with adults. It matters not whether they are male or female.
Firstly, he visits the Hello Work center for mothers in Yokohama and talks to the ladies there. As you can see, this particular Hello Work center caters to mothers with various facilities for children.
Sho discusses the difficulties of working mothers.
Some mothers raised how they had quit their jobs in order to have children.
Sho highlights the buzzwords surrounding women at work. Among them, you can see marriage, parenting, record high, childbirth.
An interesting and very pertinent issue which the panel highlighted was the idea of paternity leave. Although Japan allows for men to take paternity leave, it is not accepted in the workplace and is generally frowned upon. When the female MC highlighted that only 2% of men take the paternity leave they were entitled to, Sho looked visibly shocked. Another panel member highlighted how he was stigmatized by his colleagues for taking paternity leave when he had work to do. It will be difficult for women to return to work unless men and society in general recognize their responsibility in parenting.
I liked this tweet which was aired during the program:
The responsibility of looking after a child lies with adults. It matters not whether they are male or female.
