The Japanese Cabinet has adopted a new five year gender equality plan, abandoning the previous target of ensuring 30 percent of "leadership" positions are held by women by 2020. The new targets are far less ambitious, aiming at only seven percent of middle managerial positions in the central government and fifteen percent of middle managerial positions in the private sector to be held by women by 2020. Japan has the second lowest proportion of female managers of all countries in the OECD.