Je dois résumer ce texte pour un travail en oral d'anglais. Je dois donc faire une intro, un petit plan et une conclusion pour expliquer ce texte (en anglais biensur!!^^) et je dois parler pendant 5 minutes a peu près. Si quelqu'un pourrait m'aider...
=S
In 1985, women held just 6.6 percent of all management jobs in Japanese companies and government, according to the International Labor Organization, a United Nations agency. By 2005, that number had risen to only 10.1 percent, though Japan’s 27 million working women made up nearly half of its work force. By contrast, women held 42.5 percent of managerial jobs in the United States in 2005, the organization said.
Experts on women’s issues say outright prejudice is only part of Japan’s problem. An even bigger barrier to the advancement of women is the nation’s notoriously demanding corporate culture, particularly its expectation of morning-to-midnight work hours.
Government statistics show that many women drop out of management-track jobs when they reach their late 20s and early 30s [...]
Progress is slow: Only some 50 of Teijin’s approximately 2,000 managers are women, but even that is an almost threefold increase from when Ms. Kurose joined the company, she said.
Now, women’s rights advocates are starting to argue that Japan must make more such efforts — not just for the corporate good, but for survival.
They point to studies showing that nations with greater workplace participation, like the United States, actually have higher fertility rates. Advocates say this is because working women in other countries start having children earlier in life, while many who leave the work force do not do so until their 30s.
“Birthrates here are declining because of a lack of equality for women,” said Ms. Inoguchi, the former minister. “The population shortage is forcing a change in attitudes.”