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Percentage Of Female Managers At Nintendo Hasn't Improved, Despite Pledges (www.nintendolife.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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According to Nintendo's annual report published earlier this week, only 4.2% of company managers in Japan are women. This is a number that has remained unchanged since 2021, when the company formed its 'Nintendo Women and Allies' initiative, pledging to "promote women’s careers"

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its a Japanese company and older than 20 years, such change takes time when your entire management is in their 60s or older...

[+] [email protected] -7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's not an excuse though. If you state publicy as a company that you will make changes, then it's not unreasonable to expect those changes to actually happen.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Japanese society is very old-fashioned, male dominated, hierarchical and “I’m older than you so that means I’m right”. Japan’s cybersecurity minister admitted a couple of years ago that he had never used a computer in his life. While I understand the frustration it is (unfortunately) not surprising that these changes do not happen in a timely fashion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Japan’s cybersecurity minister admitted a couple of years ago that he had never used a computer in his life.

Then he has never been the victim of a cyber-attack!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This is especially true when it comes to traditional gender roles in the workplace. Women in Japan are often only hired as secretaries or "office ladies" in big companies, basically to shuffle papers and serve tea. Not exactly big decision-making roles. Heck, even making an announcement is likely a big thing in this regard for a Japanese company, if they actually follow through they could really be seen as progressive by Japanese standards.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah but when it comes to corporations saying they'll do things, its almost always just whatever garbage will benefit the company at the time, regardless of the fact they likely will never follow through.

I think the lesson is that you should never believe these statements about the future, the only times major corporations can be honest is if they're reporting something that already happened.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not really about believing them or not. It's more just bringing attention to their bs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The changes occur in the hiring practices, but when the average time an employee works for a company is as high as it is in Japan you're looking at a decade or so to see the numbers move significantly.

Sorry firing half of the managers wasn't their move? Lol

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man its a society issue, i know a friend that works in Japan, he has a boss that takes pride in rejection of modern technology, that guy believes everything more modern than a Nokia 3310 is shit, unnecessary and i quote his quote "that trend will end soon anyway"

You can only imagine how these people see woman...