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 People walk at a business district in Chiba, east of Tokyo September 29, 2010. |
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Not only can young Japanese women look forward to a longer life than their male peers, now they also make more money. Income for single women under 30 hit an average of 218,156 yen ($2,680) a month in 2009, edging above the 215,515 yen ($2,640) of their male counterparts for the first time ever, according to an Internal Affairs ministry survey. The change, which saw women's incomes surge 11.4 percent from the previous survey five years ago compared to a 7 percent fall for men, was driven by the plunge of the global economy and the fact that men's incomes simply had more room to fall. "Basically, men's salaries were much higher in general, and they took a much bigger hit when the economy worsened," said Hideo Kumano, chief economist at the Dai-ichi Life Research Institute. "In addition, many more men work in manufacturing than women, and after the Lehman failure things for this sector really chilled." Japan's economy has always been export-dependent and centered around manufacturers, who suffered especially badly from the late 2008 failure of Lehman Bros and the global stock market plunge that followed. In early 2009, Japanese stocks fell to a 26-year closing low. By contrast, women are much more involved in jobs in medicine and nursing care, which have surged as Japan's population ages. In addition, Kumano said, younger women may finally be starting to reap the rewards of the trails blazed by older predecessors in white-collar jobs such as finance. "Women are now more able to take career-track jobs like this thanks to those in their 40s and older, who now are taking up managerial positions," he added. But Kumano cautioned the figures may be a one-off fluctuation and it is still too early to see if the change is lasting. According to the 2009 United Nations Development Programme's Gender Empowerment Measure, Japan ranked 57th out of 109 countries in political and economic participation for women. Women accounted for only 4.1 percent of department managers in private corporations in 2008, according to a study by Japan's Gender Equality Bureau of the Cabinet Office. (Read by Renee Haines. Renee Haines is a journalist at the China Daily Web site.) (Agencies) |
日本年輕女性不但預(yù)期壽命會比男性長，如今她們賺的錢也比男性多。 根據(jù)內(nèi)務(wù)省的一項調(diào)查，30歲以下的單身女性2009年的平均月收入達到21.8萬日元（2680美元），有史以來首次以微弱優(yōu)勢超過了同一年齡段日本男性的平均月薪（21.55萬日元，合2640美元）。 相比于五年前的調(diào)查結(jié)果，女性的收入上升了11.4%，而男性的收入下降了7%。這一變化一方面是由于全球經(jīng)濟的蕭條，另一方面也是因為男性的收入確實有進一步下降的空間。 日本第一生命經(jīng)濟研究所的首席經(jīng)濟學家熊野秀夫說：“一般說來，男性的收入總體上會比女性高得多，在經(jīng)濟惡化時受到的打擊也大得多。” “另外，在制造業(yè)工作的男性要比女性多得多，而在雷曼兄弟公司破產(chǎn)后制造業(yè)嚴重衰退了。” 日本經(jīng)濟一直是依賴出口并以制造業(yè)為中心，2008年末雷曼兄弟破產(chǎn)，隨后全球股市暴跌，日本受創(chuàng)尤其嚴重。2009年初，日本股市收盤跌到了26年以來的最低點。 相比之下，隨著日本人口的老齡化，在醫(yī)藥和護理行業(yè)工作的女性大大增多了。 另外，熊野說，青年女性也許終于能夠開始收獲前輩們在金融等白領(lǐng)行業(yè)的耕耘成果了。 他還說：“多虧那些如今擔任管理職位的40歲以上的女性，日本女性現(xiàn)在更有能力勝任這樣有職業(yè)前景的工作。” 但是熊野提醒道，這些數(shù)據(jù)可能只是曇花一現(xiàn)的波動，要想知道這一變化是否會持久還為時尚早。 根據(jù)2009年聯(lián)合國發(fā)展計劃的性別權(quán)力指數(shù)，在女性參與政治和經(jīng)濟的情況上，日本在109個國家中排名第57位。 根據(jù)日本內(nèi)閣辦事處性別平等局的一項研究，2008年私營企業(yè)的部門經(jīng)理中，女性只占4.1%。 相關(guān)閱讀 （中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津 陳丹妮 編輯：馮明惠） |
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Vocabulary: edge: to increase or decrease slightly 略為增加（或減少） one-off: made or happening only once and not regularly（一次性的；非經(jīng)常的） |
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