One-Third of Working Women in Japan Sexually Harassed: Survey

One-third of Japanese working women have experienced sexual harassment at their place of employment, though nearly two-thirds of these women suffer in silence, a survey has showed.The results of the first-of-its-kind study commissioned by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, came as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to support working women to kickstart the country's struggling economy.
Economists have said for years that Japan needs to make better use of its well-educated but underemployed women, which could go a long way toward plugging the country's labour gap as the country faces an ageing and declining population.
The written survey questioned women currently and previously employed, both full and part time, from the ages of 25 to 44 throughout the nation and received some 10,000 responses.