Two-thirds of working women quit jobs to have 1st child (http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=235409)
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Union membership in the US rose by 311,000 people in 2007, nearly two-thirds of whom were women based nonprofit is working with women in India to
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That's not new, but it shows how the woman's position in Japan is still far away from that of Western countries, especially English-speaking and Germanic countries.
Now that fathers take a parternity leave when they have a child in France, UK or Sweden, Japanese woman cannot enjoy the same rights and are usually forced to quit their job, rather than having a maternity leave.
True, many women also quit because they feel the pressure that even if they take maternity leave they think that their bosses will think that they probably won't come back.
But on the flip side, many women quit because they think that this is a way out of the working enviornment and/or they feel that they want to give mothering a full time go.
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This is real people are losing there jobs,houses,struggling day to day.You have do when she has to take care of her new born child that has down syndrome
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It's hard to measure Japanese women by Euro-American standards.
My wife has all my support but yet she choose to stay home and put her job into maternity status, yet she works(ed) in the life insurance industry, which is probably close 90% women therefore maternity leave is quit a normal occurance.
I wonder if lot's of this shouldn't be broken down by industry.
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Two-thirds of working women quit jobs to have 1st child