International Women’s Day, observed on March 8 each year, offers a great opportunity to celebrate and raise up all the great women who are part of our daily lives. We at Kurashinity would like to say a big thank you to our female employees and acknowledge the amazing work they are doing here in Japan.
As a company, we promote gender equality by supporting working women and striving to resolve social issues that affect them. We built our business structure with a view to empowering women and helping them move forward in society.
Kurashinity’s parent company, Pasona, was an active supporter of Cabinet Office of Japan’s Accepting Foreign Housekeepers Project. A major breakthrough occurred in 2015 when an action plan called Employment of Foreign Workers in the Housekeeping Industry was approved within Japan’s National Strategic Special Zone initiative. In 2017, Pasona took another step to further women’s empowerment by establishing Kurashinity.
Our housekeeping services are designed to support a healthy work-life balance for women in Japan, who to this day often have responsibility for the majority of household chores, bearing the physical and mental stresses that go with it. Kurashinity wants to support all women, whether working women or busy mums or housewives, by providing outside help with their household chores, allowing them time to enjoy the life they have chosen.
As well as providing services for busy women who reside in Japan, Kurashinity provides extensive career training to its Filipino housekeepers, giving hundreds of foreign women the chance to advance their careers through housekeeping. All Kurashinity’s workers can improve their skills through an intensive training program that encourages career growth and personal development, which in turn widens career prospects overall.
Kurashinity and its parent company, Pasona, continue to campaign for better work-life balance and support for women’s careers in Japan. Although gender equality in Japan is not yet fully realized, we at Kurashinity pledge to stand by women every step of the way through our business structure, which is designed to empower women.
Happy International Women’s Day!
Originally from the United Kingdom, Jessica is a writer and translator now living happily by the sea just south of Tokyo in Kamakura, Japan.
