Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place for women?
I&#x27;m just not sure these people are understanding the problem the right way round. Salaries and prestige are relatively low for developers in Japan, so it&#x27;s relatively easy for other jobs to compete for prospective workers and draw them away from technology. That will be true even if more women are interested in the field than formerly.<p>In fact, convincing many women to commit to the field early in their educations for reasons of representation, rather than because the economics are compelling to them, would only make the situation worse: relatively more workers competing for jobs with salaries that are already low.<p>Japanese enterprises do not value software engineering talent and there are probably some underlying fundamentals behind that -- in workplaces with relatively low independence, it&#x27;s hard to leverage engineering talent for much -- which, left unchanged, will make initiatives like this into a game of musical chairs.