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>Despite being fired for getting married, she became the first elected president of the British Phycological Society in 1952. Today, Drew-Baker is known in Japa
by inflatableDodo 7y ago
>Despite being fired for getting married, she became the first elected president of the British Phycological Society in 1952. Today, Drew-Baker is known in Japan as "the mother of the sea," and every year a festival is held in her honor in Uto City.
I wonder if she gets extra recognition from at least half of the Japanese population, for the circumstances surrounding her firing, given that being fired for daring to be both female and married is still apparently the established practice in many Japanese companies today.
- gryson 7y agoThat's not the case at all. Women certainly quit their jobs due to poor maternity support and childcare services, as well as the managerial glass ceiling, but I don't know how anyone can believe that Japanese labor law would allow for the standard practice of firing women when they get married.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoJapanese labor law does not allow it. But Japanese labor law is often not upheld. Japanese law does not allow the education system to systematically downgrade the results of female students to stop them becoming doctors either, which has gone on for years.
- gryson 7y agoYou're referencing a scandal unrelated to your original point that sparked massive outrage when it was uncovered. Where is your evidence that it is "established practice in many Japanese companies today" to fire women when they get married?
- inflatableDodo 7y agoThrough my friend Asami, mostly. To be more accurate, you are encouraged to get married, the dismissal happens when you get pregnant. Look up the term 'matahara'.
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