# 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 — 第三十七条 (Article 37) - 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37) — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-37 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十七条 art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-37 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-37/par-1 If any of the following items apply, the person who committed the violation is subject to a fine of not more than 300,000 yen: machine translation, not official **一** 第十条第二項（第十四条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定に違反したとき。 art-37/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-37/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-37/par-1/item-1 if a person has violated the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 14, paragraph (2)); machine translation, not official **二** 第十六条第五項において準用する職業安定法第五十条第一項の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。 art-37/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-37/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-37/par-1/item-2 if a person has failed to make a report under the provisions of Article 50, paragraph (1) of the Employment Security Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (5), or has made a false report; machine translation, not official **三** 第十六条第五項において準用する職業安定法第五十条第二項の規定による立入り若しくは検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避し、又は同項の規定による質問に対して答弁をせず、若しくは虚偽の陳述をしたとき。 art-37/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-37/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-37/par-1/item-3 if a person has refused, obstructed or evaded entry or inspection under the provisions of Article 50, paragraph (2) of the Employment Security Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (5), or has failed to answer a question under the provisions of that paragraph or made a false statement; or machine translation, not official **四** 第十六条第五項において準用する職業安定法第五十一条第一項の規定に違反して秘密を漏らしたとき。 art-37/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-37/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-37/par-1/item-4 if a person has divulged secrets in violation of the provisions of Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Employment Security Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (5). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-37/par-1/item-1: 第十条第二項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十条第二項 (Article 10, paragraph (2)), art-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-10/par-2 - art-37/par-1/item-1: 第十四条第二項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十四条第二項 (Article 14, paragraph (2)), art-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-14/par-2 - art-37/par-1/item-2: 第十六条第五項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十六条第五項 (Article 16, paragraph (5)), art-16/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-16/par-5 - art-37/par-1/item-2: 職業安定法第五十条第一項 → 職業安定法 第五十条第一項 (Article 50, paragraph (1)), art-50/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-50/par-1 - art-37/par-1/item-3: 第十六条第五項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十六条第五項 (Article 16, paragraph (5)), art-16/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-16/par-5 - art-37/par-1/item-3: 職業安定法第五十条第二項 → 職業安定法 第五十条第二項 (Article 50, paragraph (2)), art-50/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-50/par-2 - art-37/par-1/item-4: 第十六条第五項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第十六条第五項 (Article 16, paragraph (5)), art-16/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-16/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-16/par-5 - art-37/par-1/item-4: 職業安定法第五十一条第一項 → 職業安定法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-security-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-51/par-1 ## 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 第三十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-38/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 - 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