A majority of young female recruits in Japan desire both full-time careers and a family, with 90 percent expecting their future husbands to take paternity leave, according to recent findings by Tokyo-based recruitment information firm Disco Inc.
According to the firm, the results signal a change in young women's views on work and their roles in the society.
"Year by year more (female) students think about taking parental leave while holding on to a career, but the results of our study show that more women also want men and their future husbands to make the same commitment to child-rearing," said Fusako Takei, Disco's senior researcher who oversaw the study on female students' career goals.
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