Salary and wage gap between men and women in Japanese forestry

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  • 林業賃金の男女格差
  • リンギョウ チンギン ノ ダンジョ カクサ

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Gender issues are deeply settled in the field of Japanese forestry, as if there aren't. One of which is a gap of salary or wage between men and women of forestry workers. So far, many researchers who made reports on forestry worker-wage have neglected the gaps because of luck of appropriate data on wage and salary of them. As I mentioned the gender issues on this report, there are some clear gaps of wage and salary between men and women at forestry cooperatives. In case of staffs of forestry cooperatives, the salary gaps between men and women are gradually reducing. However it depends on the cooperative management scale. For example, a salary of women of small scale cooperatives sometimes exceed men's one. By the way, these small scale cooperatives depend on forestry subsidiaries will be amalgamated with neighbor cooperatives to enforce their economic powers. After amalgamation, or large scale cooperatives need the staff organization of an office, the big cooperatives have to make some new managerial posts and/or set up managing members. Women will be excluded from these managerial posts by their sex. On the other hand, wages of forestry workers haven't been identified precisely because of their wages are depended on type of wage and type of employment. The wage gaps between men and women haven't changed so much since 1970s. The women's wage ratio to men's one have been seventy something in part time outdoor workers so far. But, a few women workers of forestry cooperatives has been paid as same level as men. I hope that every women of forestry workers and staffs should be paid their wage and salary to be evaluated exactly.

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