42% of Japan companies actively promote women to key posts: survey

Only 42.6 percent of companies in Japan are actively promoting women to managerial positions, down 7.4 points from last year, according to a recent private survey.Teikoku Databank Ltd., which conducted the survey in July, said the economic slowdown sparked by the novel coronavirus pandemic has made companies less focused on the issue of promoting women.A greater number of companies have put more emphasis on maintaining overall employment, it said.According to the survey, 41 percent of respondents said they are not actively offering leadership posts to female employees, up 7 points from a si…READ FULL ARTICLE