A photograph of Japanese women from the book "Japan And Japanese" (1902)
General Statistics
Maternal mortality (per 100,000)
5 (2010)
Women in parliament
10.2% (2018)[1]
Women over 25 with secondary education
80.0% (2010)
Women in labour force
64.6% employment rate (2015)[2]
Gender Inequality Index[3]
Value
0.083 (2021)
Rank
22nd out of 191
Global Gender Gap Index[4]
Value
0.650 (2022)
Rank
116th out of 146
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Although women in Japan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after World War II, economic conditions for women remain unbalanced.[5] Modern policy initiatives to encourage motherhood and workplace participation have had mixed results.[6]
Women in Japan obtained the right to vote in 1945.[7] While Japanese women's status has steadily improved in the decades since then, traditional expectations for married women and mothers are cited as a barrier to full economic equality.[8] The monarchy is strictly male-only and a princess has to resign her imperial title if she marries a commoner.
^"Women in Parliaments: World Classification". www.ipu.org.
^OECD. "LFS by sex and age - indicators". Stats.oecd.org. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
^"Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF). HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
^"Global Gender Gap Report 2022" (PDF). World Economic Forum. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
^Cite error: The named reference nytimes-soble was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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^"Birth of the Constitution of Japan - Chronological Table". National Diet Library, Japan. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
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