Japanese employers tend to hire employees right out of college and train them for a lifetime job with the company.Over time they found that women often, but not always, married after a few years and left the company so they were not good training investments.Based on this experience, and despite the exceptions, firms stopped hiring any women for jobs that require substantial training.This practice is called

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This practice is an example of statistical discrimination, which is when employers use observable characteristics of a group to make decisions about individuals within that group. In this case, the observable characteristic is gender and the decision made is to not hire women for jobs that require substantial training due to the statistical likelihood that they will leave the job after a few years.

Japanese Employers Tend to Hire Employees Right Out of College