By Emma Dalton
This booklet appears on the gendering of the political approach in Japan and the consequences of that procedure on gender equality in national-level politics particularly and wider society extra quite often. It examines the strategy taken by way of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic social gathering (LDP) to problems with gender equality in Japan, and the repercussions of that process on women’s political studies and illustration. This booklet covers a number of issues together with the function of the LDP and different significant political events in developing the trendy jap political process, the under-representation of ladies in eastern politics, women’s reviews in celebration politics and the gendering of presidency regulations. utilizing in-depth interviews with ladies contributors of the nationwide vitamin, the ebook sheds mild on how political ladies negotiate the male-dominated global of eastern politics.
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When it comes to garnering a lot of votes, this kind of system is more advantageous than electoral systems where voters can only select one candidate (Ogai 2005: 31) as Japanese women are in general at a disadvantage in acquiring resources such as networks and finances (Funabashi 2004: 28). The Japanese electoral system is often decried by scholars and feminists as being one of the main obstacles to increased female political participation (Kubo and Gelb 1994: 126–27; Yamaguchi 2002: 12). The effect of the size of the electoral district on the number of women elected is evident in Lower House election results from the late 1940s.
1947 is regarded by many as the end of the first phase of the occupation, with the second phase representing the ‘reverse course’ taken by US authorities (Hayes 2005: 36). Most social and political reforms, such as the establishment of the Women and Minor’s Bureau, were completed by 1947 and, after this, the US became more concerned with Japan’s role in Asia’s economic expansion. The ‘reverse course’ signalled a reinterpretation by the US of the post-war situation. The occupation shifted 14 Women, power and politics under LDP rule its focus from discouraging re-militarisation to discouraging left-wing politics and encouraging economic growth and entry into the ‘free world’ (Kishimoto 1997: 26; Hayes 2005: 36).
Specifically, support for the post-war salaryman/housewife family model was on the political agenda for the LDP at least until the 1990s. Despite an appearance of both change (equal employment opportunity legislation) and continuity (gender role-reinforcing taxation laws), until the 1990s, the LDP supported what widely published feminist writer and activist Higuchi Keiko and colleagues have called the ‘neo-division of labour’ (1985: 27). This refers to the gendered division of labour whereby men work outside the home and women work inside the home with some part-time labour.