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A Japanese woman in work uniform (c. 2000s)An office lady (Japanese: オフィスレディー, romanized: Ofisuredī), often abbreviated OL (Japanese: オーエル, romanized: Ōeru, pronounced [o̞ːe̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]), is a female office worker in Japan who performs generally pink-collar tasks such as secretarial or clerical work.
The term came into use when women were expected to marry and become housewives after a short period working as an "office lady". The term is used in Japan to describe the counterpart to the Japanese salaryman; a career woman in Japan also works for a salary, and seeks to supplement her family's income through work or to remain independent by ...
Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies is a non-fiction book by Yuko Ogasawara (小笠原 祐子, Ogasawara Yūko), published in June 1998 by University of California Press. It describes interactions between salarymen and office ladies in Japanese workplaces.
Noted nonfiction writer Shin'ichi Sano [] wrote a bestselling book, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Office Lady Murder Case (pub. 2000) following this case. An appreciable segment of women in the workplace in Japan evidently identify with the victim's urge to "sell their bodies" as a reaction to difficult circumstances in their personal lives, dubbed "Yasuko syndrome", [4] or Tōden OL shōkogun(i.e ...
Shomuni (ショムニ) (also called Power Office Girls) is a comedic TV drama serial based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Hiroyuki Yasuda (安田弘之, Yasuda Hiroyuki), though much of the details (all besides the company name and the characters) have departed from the comic. Released in 1998, Shomuni was a surprise winner of the ...
Salaryman (サラリーマン, sararīman) is an originally Japanese word for salaried workers. In Japanese popular culture, it is portrayed as a white-collar worker who shows unwavering loyalty and commitment to his employer, prioritizing work over everything else in their life often at the expense of their family.
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The gender roles that discourage Japanese women from seeking elected office have been further consolidated through Japan's model of the welfare state. In particular, since the postwar period, Japan has adopted the "male breadwinner" model, which favors a nuclear-family household in which the husband is the breadwinner for the family while the ...