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This 5 page paper examines the Harvard case study of Sumiko Ito, a Japanese business woman that overcame gender and ethnic bias to achieve her career goals. The paper considers the extent that gender and ethnicity played in her career path and her self perception. The second part of the paper then considers how students may face similar barriers.
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one, that although taking place in traditional Japanese style, and with the background of a typical Japanese family was one that gave her a strong foundation on which to grow.
Having studied with male children and then young men at university Sumiko may have benefited from a stable home where she was not taught that she could not do some
things just because she was a woman. However, in any patriarchal society there will always be some disadvantages due to gender. The workplace was dominated by men, the senior
positions all went to men this was not only the traditional view of the workplace in Japan, but it was culturally acceptable as well as legally acceptable as there were
no equal rights laws. The first real feeling of this that Sumiko gets is when she is graduating university and the male peers receive invitations to interviews but she
only receives two, which appear to have been sent to her in error. The gender gap is emphasised here when she does arrive at the interview and is offered a
different more junior position, at a much lower salary. It is at this point she may truly have realised the lack of value associated with women in the workplace.
This discrimination then becomes a motivation, she is determined to get good job and applies to the one place which does employee educated women; the government departments. However here she
still finds there is a quota system, one woman to be employed every seven years. This is restrictive and she pushes with telephone calls to get a job, and she
eventually succeeds. Once in the job there is still discrimination, but she faces less. When she receives a scholarship to Oxfords she is given a big opportunity, and after
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