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BASF Japan Ltd.

Japan entity: BASFジャパン株式会社 · Parent: BASF SE · Corporate number 1010401084004 · 日本語

BASF Japan Ltd., the Japan subsidiary of BASF SE (Germany), registered as BASFジャパン株式会社, reports in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's women's-advancement database that 23.1% of its managers are women, women's average pay is 88.7% of men's among regular employees, 42.1% of eligible fathers took childcare leave (as of December 2025).

Women's advancement and leave

Women in management
23.1%
Women's pay as % of men's, all
86.5%
Women's pay as % of men's, regular
88.7%
Women's pay as % of men's, non-regular
84.4%
Men taking childcare leave
42.1%

The pay figures compare women's average pay with men's, not pay for the same job. Data as of December 2025.

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Questions this page answers

What share of managers are women at BASF Japan Ltd.?
23.1%, as reported to MHLW's women's-advancement database (as of December 2025).
What is the gender pay gap at BASF Japan Ltd.?
Women's average pay as a percentage of men's: 86.5% across all employees, 88.7% among regular employees, 84.4% among non-regular employees. This compares average pay, not pay for the same job.
How many fathers take childcare leave at BASF Japan Ltd.?
42.1% of eligible men took childcare leave.

Japan Human Capital Data 2026

For this employer and about 36,000 others: overtime, paid leave taken, women among officers, supervisors and new hires, tenure and ten-year retention by gender, with medians and percentiles for its industry and size band, and every foreign-owned subsidiary flagged with its parent. In a members' dashboard and as Excel and CSV.

What Professional includes

Source: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, women's-advancement database (open data), as of 2026-10-06; figures are self-reported by each employer and checked for plausibility by The Hardest Market. 女性の活躍推進企業データベースオープンデータ（2026年10月6日時点）を加工して作成.