I'm disgusted

[andrewducker]

If you are a woman, know one, or are related to one then you'll almost certainly be as sickened as I am by this article on discrimination against pregnant mothers.  But not terribly surprised by most of it.  The bit that gets to me is that an advisor to the government is saying it, and nobody is speaking out to contradict him...

Comments

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

In Japan, it's still alive and well. I know from bitter bitter experience (30 interviews, and counting) that people don't hire 30 something married women in Japan. Full stop.

It's very annoying (I had a 100% interview success rate before I lived in Tokyo) and even more when women who have transferred in with companies start claiming that no such prejudice exists.

Companies here love to interview me, when they see my CV and don't know my gender. When they meet me? (and I can't lie about being married, I have a dependent visa) Not so much.

With my married female Japanese friends, only one works. She is fully aware of what an outlier she is, suffers lots of prejudice because of it, and is basically only doing it because the family financial situation demands it. If they were richer, she'd give up in a heartbeat, to get away from the censure.

[ratmist.livejournal.com]

Christ. That just. Christ. *gobsmacked*

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, I have a *lot* of counts against me (gaijin, and female, and could get pregnant, and need to have company support work visa, and not sufficient business Japanese - I was told to go learn Japanese, so I did, and now I get asked why I have this big gap in my CV because going to a juku to cram Japanese doesn't count, and I'm only applying to companies where the operating language is English anyway). But I was actually extremely good at what I did before I came to Japan, and my CV I know is really really strong.

Gah. It's very frustrating.

You might find this article interesting:
http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyo/638/feature.asp