{"id":54705,"date":"2023-04-28T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T04:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/28\/japan-pledges-to-have-women-in-third-of-top-boardroom-roles-by-2030"},"modified":"2023-04-28T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T04:35:06","slug":"japan-pledges-to-have-women-in-third-of-top-boardroom-roles-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54705","title":{"rendered":"Japan pledges to have women in third of top boardroom roles by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Fumio Kishida says diversity in listed companies is key to \u2018achieving new capitalism and an inclusive society\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has said he wants almost a third of executive positions at the country\u2019s top companies to be occupied by women by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>In an apparent attempt to address Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/dec\/11\/japan-women-standing-election-abe-gender-gap\">poor record on gender equality<\/a> ahead of the G7 leaders\u2019 summit in Hiroshima next month, Kishida said more boardroom diversity would boost the world\u2019s third-biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/28\/japan-pledges-to-have-women-in-third-of-top-boardroom-roles-by-2030\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Fumio Kishida says diversity in listed companies is key to \u2018achieving new capitalism and an inclusive society\u2019Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has said he wants almost a third of executive positions at the country\u2019s top companies t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54706,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54705\/revisions\/54706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}