Office Ladies and Salaried Men (original) (raw)

Office Ladies and Salaried Men, Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies is a non-fiction book by (小笠原 祐子, Ogasawara Yūko), published in June 1998 by University of California Press. It describes interactions between salarymen and office ladies in Japanese workplaces. This was the first book that studied the office lady phenomenon in detail. Kawanishi Yûko of Temple University Japan referred to the book as "a guerilla handbook on OL subversion tactics". Ogasawara also argued that compared to other disadvantaged persons, office ladies wielded relatively more power.