Women become easy targets in bad economy - asahi.com, Author - Takeshi Owada
But the number of maternity leave-based discrimination charges filed at labor bureaus nationwide rose to 1,107 from April 2008 through February this year, up from 882 for all of fiscal 2007, according to a Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare survey.
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