# 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 / Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — 第二十一条 (Article 21)

- Law: 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 (Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life), 平成二十七年法律第六十四号
- English title "Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（特定事業主による女性の職業選択に資する情報の公表） — address `art-21`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-21
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-21
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### 第二十一条（特定事業主による女性の職業選択に資する情報の公表） — (Publication of Information that Contributes to Women's Choice of Occupations by Specified Employers)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-21</sup>

  **第一項**  特定事業主は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、職業生活を営み、又は営もうとする女性の職業選択に資するよう、その事務及び事業における女性の職業生活における活躍に関する次に掲げる情報を定期的に公表しなければならない。
  <sup>art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-21/par-1</sup>
  Specified employers must regularly publicize the following information regarding women's active engagement in professional life in their administrative duties and business to contribute to choice of occupations for women who work or who intend to work, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order:
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **一**  その任用する職員の男女の給与の額の差異
    <sup>art-21/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-21/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-21/par-1/item-1</sup>
    the difference in the amount of salary between men and women among the officials they appoint;
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **二**  その任用する管理的地位にある職員に占める女性職員の割合
    <sup>art-21/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-21/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-21/par-1/item-2</sup>
    the ratio of women officials among the officials in managerial positions whom they appoint;
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **三**  前二号に掲げるもののほか、その任用し、又は任用しようとする女性に対する職業生活に関する機会の提供に関する実績
    <sup>art-21/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-21/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-21/par-1/item-3</sup>
    in addition to what is set forth in the preceding two items, achievements in the provision of opportunities for professional life of women whom they appoint or intend to appoint; and
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **四**  その任用する職員の職業生活と家庭生活との両立に資する勤務環境の整備に関する実績
    <sup>art-21/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-21/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-21/par-1/item-4</sup>
    achievements in development of working conditions that contribute to the creation of a balance between professional and personal life of the officials they appoint.
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "achievements in development of working conditions that contribute to the creation of a balance between processional and personal life of the officials they appoint." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb</sup>

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## Cites
- art-21/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第二十一条第一項第一号 (Article 21, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-21/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-21/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-21/par-1/item-1
- art-21/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第二十一条第一項第二号 (Article 21, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-21/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-21/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-21/par-1/item-2

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第二十一条第一項第三号（特定事業主による女性の職業選択に資する情報の公表） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-21/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-21/par-1/item-3

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life, written 2026-10-19
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/427AC0000000064/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-19
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life (女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律), Article 21, paragraph (1), item (iv) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch womens-engagement-act-20261019T013854-001, translated 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch womens-engagement-act-20261019T013854-001, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 201 — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19