Resona to up female chiefs

It's a good start to plan to increase the amount of female managers, although I think 2020 is still quit far away, and am looking forward to seeing other companies do the same. What's your opinion about this matter? Do you think it's fine the way it is, should there be more female within the managing positions? etc.

It also brings the question, is it possible for female to take a year maternity leave here in Japan and how would their position be after they started working again?

[h=1]Resona to up female chiefs[/h][h=2]Lender wants women to play key roles, including as operating officer[/h]Bloomberg
Resona Holdings Inc. aims to help narrow the country's gender gap by adding female managers and appointing a woman as an executive for the first time.

The lender plans to increase the portion of female managers to 30 percent from the current 4 percent by 2020, and select a woman as an operating officer in the "near future," Chairman Eiji Hosoya, 66, said in an interview in Tokyo. "Companies that don't give women leading roles will be left behind."

"Women will play a larger role at Resona, particularly in the loan and audit departments, where men have traditionally dominated," said Hosoya. Women accounted for 41 percent of Resona's 15,240 full-time workers as of March 2011, according to bank figures.
Some 74 percent of highly qualified women in Japan voluntarily quit their jobs, compared with 31 percent in the U.S. and 35 percent in Germany, according to a study by the Center for Work-Life Policy, a New York-based nonprofit research group.

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I agree with you. I hope that more women will be fairly appointed to important posts according to their ability.
Companies shouldn't avoid to do that because of worries about marriage or pregnancy. Instead, they should establish the systems to employ women after child-care leave.


By the way, I'm a student, so afraid that I can't know about the situations of a company in the real world.
But, Resona says in the official website that they permit the staff to take holiday until the child become 1years and 1month.(according to the situation, permitted until 2years and 1month)
Then, they have introduced the system for employment of women after child-care leave. They hold seminars before they come back to Resona in order to give business information which has changed during their holiday and to help their adaptation. Actually,in 2009, 66women participated in the seminar.