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女性必読（勿論、男も）！（エコノミスト誌）

Women and the world economy
A guide to womenomics

Apr 12th 2006
From The Economist print edition

The future of the world economy lies increasingly in female hands

ＧＮＰという統計値はかなりいかがわしいものとかねがね思っていますが、女性の市場経済への参画は間違いなくこの数値を引き上げます。少子高齢化で成長鈍化を懸念されているわが国は、女性の就業率がまだまだ低いので、十分成長の余地があるようです。加えて、この記事によればはるかに良質の労働力のようです。
“WHY can't a woman be more like a man?” mused Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady”. Future generations might ask why a man can't be more like a woman. In rich countries, girls now do better at school than boys, more women are getting university degrees than men are and females are filling most new jobs. Arguably, women are now the most powerful engine of global growth.

In 1950 only one-third of American women of working age had a paid job. Today two-thirds do, and women make up almost half of America's workforce (see chart 1). Since 1950 men's employment rate has slid by 12 percentage points, to 77%. In fact, almost everywhere more women are employed and the percentage of men with jobs has fallen—although in some countries the feminisation of the workplace still has far to go: in Italy and Japan, women's share of jobs is still 40% or less.

The increase in female employment in developed countries has been aided by a big shift in the type of jobs on offer. Manufacturing work, traditionally a male preserve, has declined, while jobs in services have expanded. This has reduced the demand for manual labour and put the sexes on a more equal footing.

In the developing world, too, more women now have paid jobs. In the emerging East Asian economies, for every 100 men in the labour force there are now 83 women, higher even than the average in OECD countries. Women have been particularly important to the success of Asia's export industries, typically accounting for 60-80% of jobs in many export sectors, such as textiles and clothing. (後略)

独断的コメント：

長文のこのレポートは、女性に非常に好意的です。女性のほうが勉強が出来るとか、女性役員が多い会社のほうが収益率が高いとか、チームワークにも秀でているとか、女性への投資は次世代へも好影響をもたらす等々です。又、女性の職場進出は少子化や成長鈍化をもたらすという常識の嘘も指摘しています。

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