The World Bank has released a report investigating the gender gap over economic rights, such as equal payments, and Japan remains in 80th place out of 190 countries and territories.
The World Bank conducts an annual survey on the actual situation of gender inequality in workplaces, etc., in order to make use of it in the policies of each government.
This time, from September to October last year, we conducted an evaluation of 190 countries and regions based on eight items, such as the ease of working for women and the presence or absence of wage disparities.
As a result, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, and Iceland were considered to have the smallest gender gap, with Western countries ranked first in the same line.
On the other hand, in Japan, although it was evaluated that there is no difference between men and women in terms of "movement" such as selection of a place for women to live and travel, and items of qualification to receive "pension", wage "payment" and gender discrimination It is said that the degree of achievement will be only half in the "workplace" item, which looks at whether there is a law to punish sexual harassment, and the ranking was 80th.
The report also points out that despite the fact that the system is in place in Japan, the rate of male employees taking childcare leave in 2019 was only 7.5%, and sharing of childcare, etc., where no wages are incurred to achieve gender equality. Is indispensable.