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Putting a woman in charge may boost productivity

Women managers could be the key to fixing deadening corporate culture

Work-life balance, gender equality
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Work-life balance, gender equality and results-oriented management are all aspects of a unified whole Photo: iSTOCK

Noah Smith | Bloomberg
If you’ve never tried a Japanese snack called Jagariko, I highly recommend it. When I visited the Tokyo offices of Japanese snackmaker Calbee Inc, I made sure to ask if I could have a free pack of my favourite snack. “Maybe,” the managers hedged.
 
I wasn’t at Calbee to talk about their potato sticks, but their corporate culture. Calbee is famous in Japan for a progressive, female-friendly workplace. Japan’s government has scaled back its ambitions to put more women in corporate management roles, but Calbee is pushing ahead full steam. The company has increased the share of female managers from 5.6