(Top) You like IT175s7 How many do you want7(Above) Do you recognize
the gas tanks on the second shelf7(Below) Mama-,san bolts parts into
engine cases with an air-wrench. Women constitute 25% of Yamaha
work force.
(Above) A lone XS1000 engine moves down the line behind a string of
XS750 motors in Iwata plant. (Below; left) All-women assembly line turns '
out 25,000 "Passol" model scooters a month. It's Yamaha's biggest seller,
but isn't brought to the U.S. (Below, rightl Young woman stamps
1.0. numbers on an engine. Women earn 90% of salary paid men doing same
job lit time of hire. Due to reluctance to promote women, five years later the
average Japanese female is earning 70% of salary paid typically-promoted
male worker.
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