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Originally Posted by MMM
Was it? Despite the fact that families were making crazy amounts of money, men were still working 60+ hours weeks. I was too young to be of working age in the 80s, but I did go to Japan a couple times, and my impression was that women were VERY happy taking advantage of their husbands' companies' good fortunes. It was (and still is) the secretaries that get to go on 10 day vacations. The men have a hard time getting more than a day off in a row. I have never heard anyone say they envied the salaryman of the 80s, or especially the 90s, after the bubble burst.
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According to my gf, women just wanted to work alongside men, and that "Japanese people don't really think of working hours the same way westerners do". Women just wanted to have what they didn't have at the time (the grass is greener on the other side 隣の芝は青い), and now that they have it and it's commonplace, it's not so attractive a prospect.
She also says that seeing western women becoming more assertive in the workplace was also a motivation to Japanese women.
I'm kind of mediating this idea, my scope of knowledge isn't as broad as hers so I ask her lol.