OL (speak: oeru) throughout the abbreviation for the Japanese word creation, usual in Japan, is Office lady and designates a typically younger female office worker.

The designation "“Office lady"” for woman employees in Japanese offices has an easily adverse resemblance.

OL perform simple office activities, serve dte and in the reception range are used. Meanwhile OL in addition, more important tasks, on the one hand due to firm affiliation of many years, take over on the other hand also due to the competition pressure on Japanese companies, which lets her begin their employees more efficiently. Female employees, who participate e.g. also in further training courses, are called then - likewise also easily ironical clay/tone - "„Karriiru wuman "“(more career woman).

Content

The salary of female employees is not sufficient in Japan for leading an independent household normally. After Tokyo tightened OL needs mostly still another second income, whereby lucrative opportunities in bars and nightclub districts lure. On the other hand many female employees leave the parents' house up to the marriage not and can then a quite expensive life change afford, particularly since traditionally the family of the bridegroom, not those the bride, for a high control (Yuigon) to arise has.

Life situation

It was usual that female employees with their marriage or the reaching of an age limit from in former times at the latest 30 years from the enterprise separate. With the drastic rising of the average marriage age in the last 15 years, the larger portion of "“OL"” in the Japanese society, as well as with firm affiliation to easily, the latters educate meanwhile a financialstrong subpopulation, which places higher requirements also against the male population rising salaries also with female employees.

Hierarchy

In the Japanese open-plan offices the hierarchy is to be recognized very strongly minted and clearly. Its male colleague (Sarariman) subordinated OL typically close of the and/or the input area sits. From then on the hierarchy constantly rises into the depth of the area, whereby superordinate employees their Untergebenen sit in the back.

In the popular culture (in one gas, Animes and films) the OL is often under-demanded as of its vocational activities and represented bored.

References

• Sarariman
• Social behavior in Japan

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