Let's Use Feminist Perspective Practically: The Application of Gender Knowledge in the Japanese Business Community

Renge Jibu

Feminist Journalist, Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Education of Women

October 18 (Wednesday), 6:30-8:30 pm, 1014 Tisch Hall

Drawing on her extensive interactions with Japanese companies, Renge Jibu will discuss the recent trends in the Japanese workforce and their impact on gender and family relationships. She will cover a number of issues, including: how Japanese business units have become friendly to working women in recent years, how gender diversity affects profitability, how sexual harassment is handled in the work place, the dilemma that single women in their 30s face, and how one's knowledge of gender can be used in the business community.

Ms. Renge Jibu has worked for Nikkei Business and Nikkei Business Associé for six yearsand has written prolifically. She focuses on gender issues in the workplace and has conducted extensive research on this subject. She is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Education of Women for 2006-07. Her current research topic addresses family role models in the United States.

The event is free and open to the public.