HONG KONG, March 8 — Victoria Kwakwa, World Bank vice president for the East Asia and Pacific region, discusses the ongoing gender disparity issues in East Asia. She speaks with Bloomberg's Haidi Lun and Rishaad Salamat on ‘Bloomberg Markets’. — Bloomberg

In Japan, prime minister Shinzo Abe is pushing the ‘womenomics’ front and trying to get women back into the workplace. — FIle pic