Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015

07:00 PM – 08:15 PM
US/Central

Despite its impressive economic rise in the half-century following World War II, Japan lags sorely behind much of the world in its utilization of women as policy makers and drivers of economic growth. As economic stagnation continues to haunt the islands, Japan’s women are uniquely positioned to play a key role in dismantling archaic cultural norms to usher in a new era of economic dynamism.

Special guest Yuriko Koike joins Asia Society to discuss the roots of Japan’s underutilization of women in its political and economic spheres, the consequences of this exclusion, the economic potential to be gained from an equal role for women, and paths forward to implement reforms to shatter what she argues is not a glass ceiling, but an iron plate.