# 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 — 第四条 (Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Article 4)（事業主の責務） — address `art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-4 - 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. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条（事業主の責務） — (Responsibilities of Employers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-4 **第一項** 事業主は、基本原則にのっとり、その雇用し、又は雇用しようとする女性労働者に対する職業生活に関する機会の積極的な提供、雇用する労働者の職業生活と家庭生活との両立に資する雇用環境の整備その他の女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する取組を自ら実施するよう努めるとともに、国又は地方公共団体が実施する女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する施策に協力しなければならない。 art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-4/par-1 In accordance with the fundamental principles, employers must endeavor to play an integral role in the active provision of opportunities of professional lives for women workers whom they employ or intend to employ, endeavor to establish a work environment that contributes positively to balancing professional and personal life of the workers they employ, and endeavor to undertake other initiatives for the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life, and to cooperate with measures for the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life implemented by the national or local governments. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 5 provisions cite 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 第三条第一項（国及び地方公共団体の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-3/par-1 - 租税特別措置法 第十条の五の四第一項第二号ロ（給与等の支給額が増加した場合の所得税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-10-5-4/par-1/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-10-5-4/par-1/item-2/sub-2 - 租税特別措置法 第十条の五の四第二項第二号ハ（給与等の支給額が増加した場合の所得税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-10-5-4/par-2/item-2/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-10-5-4/par-2/item-2/sub-3 - 租税特別措置法 第四十二条の十二の五第一項第二号ロ（給与等の支給額が増加した場合の法人税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-42-12-5/par-1/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-42-12-5/par-1/item-2/sub-2 - 租税特別措置法 第四十二条の十二の五第二項第二号ハ（給与等の支給額が増加した場合の法人税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-42-12-5/par-2/item-2/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-42-12-5/par-2/item-2/sub-3 --- ## 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 - 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