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July 5th 2013

Kumiko Nemoto - "Unbreakable Walls: Organizational Inertia, the Lack of High-Powered Women, and Sex Segregation in Japanese Companies"

Dr. Nemoto specializes in gender, work, family, and organizations in Japan and the United States. She received her PhD in Sociology from University of Texas-Austin in 2004. Her publications include: "When Culture Resists Progress: Masculine Organizational Culture and Its Impacts on the Vertical Segregation of Women in Japanese Companies" in Work, Employment & Society (2012), and “Never-Married Employed Men’s Gender Beliefs and Ambivalence Toward Matrimony in Japan” in Journal of Family Issues (forthcoming). Her Abe research project is “Comparative Study of Workplace Equality in a Japanese Multinational Firm in Japan, the United States, and China”.

Location: Seminar Room #3, 9th Floor, Japan Foundation, 4-4-1 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo http://www.jpf.go.jp/j/about/outline/contact/map.html