> Are you saying that everything that's ever been written about
Japan's
> "Miracle" economy is a lie? There never was a period of true full
> employment? Some of your comparisons seem a little weak, though I
admit that
> I don't know the American numbers. Still, we are talking about, in
part, the
> 1960s and you say that most Japanese women didn't work. Wouldn't it
also be
> true that as late as 1970 America had fairly low rates of female
> participation in the workforce?
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Women worked, big time. The majority just weren't in capitalist wage
labor relations....
Ian