The female labour force in Japan is the most underutilised resource. Japan must become a place where women shine.” Thus spoke Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a speech at Davos last month in which he said his country’s output could rise 16 per cent if women worked as much as men. In London last year, in full Abenomics sales-pitch mode, he made similar remarks, declaring: “I am determined to encourage women to break through the glass ceiling. I will prepare the architecture to make that possible.”
「日本女性勞動力是一種最未得到充分利用的資源。日本必須成爲一個能讓女性發光發熱的地方,」日本首相安倍晉三(Shinzo Abe)上月在達佛斯的一次演講中這樣說。他在演講中還說,如果日本的女性就業率像男性那樣高的話,日本的產出可能會提高16%。去年在倫敦,他也曾擺足推銷安倍經濟學(Abenomics)的架勢,發表類似的言論稱:「我決心鼓勵女性打破玻璃天花板。我將爲此準備好架構,使之成爲可能。」