{"id":191,"date":"2015-08-10T19:54:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T19:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDInet\/?p=191"},"modified":"2017-08-03T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T15:05:57","slug":"2009-cwdi-report-on-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/2009-cwdi-report-on-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 CWDI Report: Women Board Directors in Japan&#8217;s 100 Largest Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2009-japan-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2063\" src=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2009-japan-001.jpg\" alt=\"2009 japan 001\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2009-japan-001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2009-japan-001-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>2009 CWDI Report:<br \/>\nWomen Board Directors in Japan&#8217;s 100 Largest Companies<\/h2>\n<h3>The 2009 CWDI Report on Women Board Directors in Japan&#8217;s 100 Largest Companies found that women held 1.4% of all board seats.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Key Findings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Women hold <strong>only 17 seats<\/strong> on the Boards of Directors of the top 100 Japanese companies out of a total of 1,198 positions.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of women board directors on the top 100 Japanese companies is <strong>1.4%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sixteen different companies have at least one woman on their Board of Directors, <strong>an increase over 1998 when only two companies had women on their boards.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>However, the majority of Japan\u2019s board directors remain predominantly male \u2013 <strong>84% of <\/strong> <strong>Japan<\/strong><strong>\u2019s top 100 companies do not have a single woman on their boards.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Only <strong>one company \u2013 Sony \u2013 has two women board directors.<\/strong>It is also the only company among the 20 largest that has appointed women to its board.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 17 board seats held by women, <strong>only one is an \u201cinside,\u201d or executive, directorship.<\/strong> The other 16 positions are \u201coutside,\u201d or non-executive directorships.<\/li>\n<li>Two women \u2013 <strong>Nobuko Matsubara and Eiko Kono<\/strong> \u2013 hold two directorships on two of these top companies.<\/li>\n<li>Compared to other countries in which studies of women board directors have been conducted, <strong>Japan places near the bottom, between Jordan (2%) and Bahrain <\/strong>(1%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To <strong> order a copy<\/strong> of the 2009 CWDI Report on Japan, <a href=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CWDI-Order-Form.pdf\"><strong> please click here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009 CWDI Report: Women Board Directors in Japan&#8217;s 100 Largest Companies The 2009 CWDI Report on Women Board Directors in Japan&#8217;s 100 Largest Companies found that women held 1.4% of all board seats. &nbsp; Key Findings Women hold only 17&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/2009-cwdi-report-on-japan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/CWDINet\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}