Womenomics in Japan

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

One of the toughest challenges facing Japan’s economy is that its population is ageing rapidly and its workforce is shrinking dramatically. But a Japanese investment analyst, Kathy Matsui, came up with a visionary idea to help her country, and she even invented a new word for it: Womenomics. The answer, according to her, was to tap into the talent of half the population. Kathy Matsui speaks to Alejandra Martins.

(Photo: Kathy Matsui. Courtesy of Goldman Sachs)

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1:15.0	I'm Alejandro Martins.
1:18.0	Today we go to Japan and the origins in 1999 of a remarkable idea to help the country face one of its greatest challenges.
1:27.0	The population of Japan is not only aging rapidly because of the low fertility rate,
1:36.2	it is also shrinking and this creates a massive problem for the country's economy.
1:41.1	But Kathy Matsui, a Japanese investment analyst, had a visionary idea and she
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