ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the interrelation between gender and culture in Japanese transnational companies. It looks at gender-segregated career paths in these Japanese financial firms, which are among the most hierarchical of workplaces in Japan, using life stories of Japanese female managers. The chapter focuses on what interviewees said about the differences between the working practices of the Japanese and the British, and discusses both Japanese and British career paths was based on the typical careers of men. It also looks at male dominance and women's responses to that dominance in the Japanese financial companies. The chapter explores how Japanese women in peripheral positions respond to the dominance of Japanese male managers. It describes how the British staff perceived gender relationships in these Japanese financial firms, since gender relationships also influenced the degree of workplace satisfaction for local staff. The chapter examines how the Japanese talked about British gender relationships, and their own masculinity and femininity.
