After becoming the Bank of Japan¡¯s highest-ranking female bureaucrat ever, Tokiko Shimizu is now turning her focus on how to shatter more glass ceilings with a plan to tackle deep-rooted gender inequality from the bottom up.
While the common path for Japanese bureaucrats after leaving the public sector is to take up a job at a major corporation or think tank, Shimizu, 59, is launching her own consultancy after leaving the BOJ in May to focus on bringing more women into STEM-related fields starting at the high school level.
¡°There are huge gaps between Japan and other countries, it¡¯s one of the main motivations for starting my new business,¡± said Shimizu in her first interview since leaving the BOJ in May. ¡°Japanese women are not less talented than men. I can help fill that gap because women have a lot of potential.¡±
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