Thanks to a SSJ reader, I was able to find the report that appears to be the basis of the JT article.

http://www.goldmansachs.com/japan/ideas/demographic-cha
nge/fortnightly-thoughts-womenomics-japanese.pdf

The table on page 5 of this item reproduces a World Economic Forum table. The numbers match with the JT numbers including a reported 96% labor force participation rate for women in Finland. The World Economic Forum report footnotes the numbers as being from the ILO, but ILO labor force participation rates for are actually much lower than those in the WEF
report: (female) Finland 56.0%, Germany 54.1%, Japan 48.2%, US 57.7%; (male) Finland 63.7%, Germany 66.4%, Japan 70.8%, US 70.2%.

http://www.ilo.org/ilostat/faces/home/statisticaldata/d
ata_by_subject/subject-details/indicator-details-by-sub
ject

The only "96%" labor force participation rate in the ILO data appears to be males in Qatar at 95.7%.

As Mark Twain said, "Lie, damned lies, and statistics?"

EHK