Japan prefecture to stop hiring female 'tea squad' for meetings
Saitama assembly hopes move will reflect changing attitudes towards women in workplaces
by Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Mar 06, 2020
2 minutes
A local government assembly is attempting to shake up Japan’s conservative workplace culture by ending the custom of employing women to serve tea at meetings.
Few official gatherings in have properly begun until female employees – known collectively as the (“tea squad”) – have placed cups of green tea in front of their invariably male
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