“Knit for Japan” is an initiative to collect and distribute hand-knitted/ crocheted items, yarn and knitting/ crochet tools to victims of the Tohoku earthquake.
■Knit/ Crochet items: Every stitch can make a difference. Take out your needles or crochet hook and start to cast-on for a woolly hat, pair of socks, a scarf or some gloves.
■Yarn and tools: From your stock of yarn send a couple of skeins together with needles or crochet hook. Many people at a shelter have not much to do during the day. Knitting can help to relieve some stress, increase motivation and produce something useful. Non-knitters might learn a new skill.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
An Invitation
A Report on Tohoku Revisit
Perspectives of Atsuko Toko Fish,
Co-Founder of the Japanese Disaster Relief Fund - Boston
Founder of the Japanese Women's Leadership Initiative
5:30pm, Tuesday December 20th, 2011
at The Boston Foundation
75 Arlington St. 10th Floor, Boston, MA
For guaranteed attendance, please RSVP by Monday December 19th, 2011.
Please visit the JDRFB website for more event details.
Issues facing Japanese women
These recent articles will be of interest to our JWLI colleagues:
"Getting Japanese Women Back on Track" (Harvard Business Review)
If ever a country needed a breakthrough idea for productivity, it's now.
In fact, a solution exists: Japan's underutilized and under-leveraged women. According to a 2010 study by Goldman Sachs, "If Japan could close its gender employment gap...Japan's workforce could expand by 8.2 million and the level of Japan's GDP could increase by as much as 15 percent."
Yet according to "Off-Ramps and On-Ramps Japan: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success," a new study from the Center for Work-Life Policy, 74% of college-educated women in Japan voluntarily quit their jobs for six months or more — more than twice the number of their counterparts in the U.S. (31%) and Germany (35%). The reason for this enormous brain drain: a toxic combination of deeply rooted social mores and how they're manifested in Japan's corporate culture. (full article)
Japanese Women Quit Unrewarding Careers (Wall Street Journal)
It’s no secret that Japanese women are a woefully underutilized talent pool in the domestic labor market. But in a departure from the conventional wisdom that women tend to drop out of the workforce for family obligations or because a baby has arrived, a new study shows that the overwhelming reason for the female labor exodus is because their careers are unsatisfying.
(full article)
"Getting Japanese Women Back on Track" (Harvard Business Review)
If ever a country needed a breakthrough idea for productivity, it's now.
In fact, a solution exists: Japan's underutilized and under-leveraged women. According to a 2010 study by Goldman Sachs, "If Japan could close its gender employment gap...Japan's workforce could expand by 8.2 million and the level of Japan's GDP could increase by as much as 15 percent."
Yet according to "Off-Ramps and On-Ramps Japan: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success," a new study from the Center for Work-Life Policy, 74% of college-educated women in Japan voluntarily quit their jobs for six months or more — more than twice the number of their counterparts in the U.S. (31%) and Germany (35%). The reason for this enormous brain drain: a toxic combination of deeply rooted social mores and how they're manifested in Japan's corporate culture. (full article)
Japanese Women Quit Unrewarding Careers (Wall Street Journal)
It’s no secret that Japanese women are a woefully underutilized talent pool in the domestic labor market. But in a departure from the conventional wisdom that women tend to drop out of the workforce for family obligations or because a baby has arrived, a new study shows that the overwhelming reason for the female labor exodus is because their careers are unsatisfying.
(full article)
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