Abstract Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In advised women to seize opportunities to climb the ranks of a corporation. Yet many of Japan’s growing cohort of corporate women warriors deliberately opt not to lean in. This article, based on ethnographic interviews with a group of these women, explores their survival strategies of building a career while embedded in still traditional gender roles over marriage and childrearing. Will these strategies evolve as companies are pressured to increase the percentage of women in management under Prime Minister Abe’s policies? How much are ‘neo-liberal’ 1 notions of career-building and self-responsibility affecting Japanese salarywomen? 2 Data come from a longitudinal set of thirteen Japanese women in the same large Tokyo multinational corporation, whom I have been interviewing at 2–5-year intervals since 2003. 3

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长期倾斜：是什么阻碍了女性在日本的晋升？

摘要 谢丽尔·桑德伯格 (Sheryl Sandberg) 的《精益求精》(Lean In) 建议女性抓住机会在公司中攀升。然而，许多日本不断壮大的企业女战士群体故意选择不投身其中。 本文基于对这些女性的民族志访谈，探讨了她们建立事业的生存策略，同时嵌入了传统的性别角色而不是婚姻和育儿. 在安倍首相的政策下，随着公司被迫增加女性在管理层中的比例，这些战略会发生变化吗？“新自由主义”1 的职业建设和自我责任观念对日本女工的影响有多大？2 数据来自同一家大型东京跨国公司的 13 名日本女性的纵向数据集，自 2003 年以来，我每隔 2 到 5 年就对她们进行一次采访。3