Foreign Employers as Relief Routes: Women, Multinational Corporations and Managerial Careers in Japan

摘要: This article argues that multinational corporations may provide critical relief routes for women workers' progress in managerial careers national contexts where their career paths with domestic employers remain blocked by traditional and institutional practices. It illustrates this possibility through a study of two managers at the local head office foreign-owned retailer Japan trajectories. The alternative foreign are not without contingencies constraints, identifies limitations transformative potential could have larger realm women's employment restrictive context such as Japan. Noting globalization incorporates different groups workers into global economy costs rewards, concludes calling more nuanced understanding multinationals further research remains cognizant multiplicity experiences contexts.