TEDxTokyo - Kathy Matsui - Womenomics - [English]

Recorded live at TEDxTokyo on May 21st 2011, at the Miraikan, Odaiba.
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[@blackpassenger]

Matsui San, Im very happy you came around and began embracing affirmative action. I think that japanese women like my wife will do well in Japan. Thanks to my direction, with an LLM and an MBA from the west, she will be one of those role models to japanese women.

[@Reicot]

I wish she was the prime minister of Japan!

[@EricCartmanez125]

if I was a Japanese citizen, I would vote for her

[@salaryman540]

great inspiring talk!

[@blackpassenger]

Dude, I said all these things in my 2009 book, 'Black Passenger Yellow Cabs: A Memoir of Exile and Excess in Japan. I love Japan, been living here since 2001. But Japan is hopeless collectively. Japan would rather cut off its nose and spite its face, than make major changes. That being said, there have been some improvements since my arrival a decade ago. But boy, it has been teeth extractingly slow. Ganbatte Matsui San.

[@nandarnandar1104]

I like here so much!!!

[@kihokahoka]

Japan is a conservative society based on unspoken consensus, a by-product of the Japanese culture itself. Despite a few brave souls, the majority of Japanese are quite content with the status quo, and are willing to trade economic progress and increased diversity for the comfort of egalitarian, uniculture way of living especially in the uncertain world of today. Economic empires rise and fall and Japan is no exception.

[@pvyuki]

I remember before the crash she told me the US market would never crash like the Japanese market, and I believed her, lmao.

[@I_use_data_for]

The thesis is important but the use of data is a real sophism. She broke all rule of statistic and said: "if you don't believe in stats" . I am data scientist and the presented data is not supporting her though unfortunately.

[@スネ夫-v2z]

おーい今やってるやつ課題出すのギリギリじゃねえのでやんす

[@aoyamaroom7304]

Inspiring!

[@romancandlefight1144]

probably wise to remember that this is a one-sided argument. e.g. the birthrates might be higher where participation is higher in the current environment, but not in the recent past (and possibly future)..... also, to employ a woman in many cases might mean not employing a man.. (number of jobs are limited) etc..... those are just a couple of egs I dreamt up -- let me know if i'm wrong here
I would expect that population density has the highest (neg) correlation with birth rates

[@k5-mnt]

great

[@マイネームイズビセンテモレーノ]

0:10

[@伊藤-b4i]

2:52