Advance Time on 2nd March

NIFS会員の皆様へ　こんにちは
 
次期（2019年4月）スタッフ候補の吉野です。
 
Advance timeについて、ご案内をします。
 
3月2日（土）例会の後半（6：45~7：25pm）に、プレゼンを致します。
内容は、働く女性、特に、赤ちゃんを育てながら働く女性に焦点を当てたテーマ『Wasted Resources – Female Labor Force』です。下記が、パワーポイントによるプレゼンの英文骨子です。
日本では、急速に老齢化が進んでいるのに、貴重な労働力となるはずの女性に十分なサポートが与えられず、育児休暇後には、元の職場復帰が難しくなり、キャリヤの道も閉ざされるという差別があるということを一緒に考えて、どうしたらよいか議論してみましょう。
良く使われる単語リストもつけておきました。
外人ゲストに頼るだけでなく、NIFSスタッフ、及び会員による十分準備されたテーマで、プレゼン、ディスカッションを行うことのトライアルとしたいです。
引用元は、1月号CNN
English ExpressのBusiness Eyeです。
あまり使われない、難しい専門用語は、多少省いてあります。
 
Let’s think and discuss about “Wasted Resources – Female Labor Force”
Recently Japan society is aging dramatically.27 percent of the population is 65 or older. In less than 50 years, the working
population could shrink by nearly half. This will have a harmful influence on Japanese economy in future.
Already, firms/companies complain of labor shortages. All this means that Japan could lose one percent point of GDP growth over next decades, according to IMF ( International Monetary Fund).
 
Some proposed solutions include worker robots, freer immigration system, but　there is one underused resource right at home: women. Women in their prime(働き盛り) have actually flooded in workforce in Japan, but　almost 32 percent of prime age female workers are part-time, while 5 percent of men. Why is this happening? Discrimination（差別）by society/companies is undoubtedly part of it.
Part of the
problem is Japan’s work culture, which is notoriously（悪名高く）punishing(過酷な), and long hour work.
Many women, who want to have children,  feel that they cannot participate in career truck work. Women seem to shoulder the burden of childcare, spending four hours at home per day in average, while men only 41 minutes.
This is unfair, but true. These force women to think change of full-time work to part-time job.
 
If you are mother with 1 and 2 year old babies, and want to continue the full-time job, how do you cope with the difficulties, or if you are husband of such career woman, how do
you support her and share household works and childcare.
 
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