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Hilary Holbrow, “Tainted Leave: Flexible Workplace Policies and Gender Inequality in Japan”

Date: 

Monday, October 30, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., and Online (Zoom)

image of salarymen on their way to work, with speaker headshot and seminar details

Hilary Holbrow
Assistant Professor of Japanese Politics and Society, Indiana University Bloomington

Moderator: Mary C. Brinton
Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology; the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; and the Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

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Note: Registration is not required for in-person attendance.


Additional Resources
 

  1. Holbrow, Hilary J. “Japanʹs Successes in Boosting Birthrates Should not be  Overlooked.” Nikkei Asia.  February 6, 2023. 
  2. Holbrow, Hilary J. “Japanʹs Women Will Not Reach Workplace Equality by Starting  at the Top.” Nikkei Asia. December 26, 2022.  
  3. Kato Takao, Kawaguchi Daiji, and Owan Hideo, "Dynamics of the Gender Gap in the Workplace: An econometric case study of a large Japanese firm." RIETI Discussion Paper Series 13-E-038, 2013. 

 

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