TOKYO, Mar 18 (News On Japan) –
The gender pay hole in Japan has reached its smallest degree on report, as the common month-to-month wage for full-time staff posted its highest progress in 33 years, in response to a survey by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The survey, carried out final yr, discovered that the common month-to-month wage for full-time staff rose 3.8% from the earlier yr to 330,400 yen, marking the quickest improve in over three many years.
Meanwhile, girls’s wages, when listed to males’s wages at 100, rose by 1.0 proportion level from the earlier yr to 75.8. Although a niche between female and male wages stays, the distinction has now narrowed to its smallest degree since comparable knowledge turned out there in 1976.
The ministry attributed the advance to a rise within the proportion of girls in managerial positions in comparison with the earlier yr.
Source: TBS