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In Japan, women on average earn 44 percent of what men earn -- the widest income gap between sexes in the developed world.
A U.N. study released last year said Japan ranked behind all other industrialized nations in terms of empowerment of women, with 10.7 percent of senior corporate and political positions held by women, compared with 42 percent in the United States.
We're all familiar with this issue, here's the article the above excerpts were taken from. Check it out:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030101654.html