enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Women in Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Japan

    The gender roles that discourage Japanese women from seeking elected office have been further consolidated through Japan's model of the welfare state. In particular, since the postwar period, Japan has adopted the "male breadwinner" model, which favors a nuclear-family household in which the husband is the breadwinner for the family while the ...

  3. Gender inequality in Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_Japan

    Gender roles in Japan are deeply entwined with the East Asian country's religious and cultural history. Japan's most popular philosophy [citation needed], Confucianism, enforces gendered rules relating to fashion and public behavior. For instance, from a young age, Japanese men are taught the importance of professional success, higher education ...

  4. Gender roles among the Indigenous peoples of North America

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_roles_among_the...

    The third gender role of nádleehi (meaning "one who is transformed" or "one who changes"), beyond contemporary Anglo-American definition limits of gender, is part of the Navajo Nation society, a "two-spirit" cultural role. The renowned 19th-century Navajo artist Hosteen Klah (1849–1896) is an example. [32] [33] [34]

  5. Asian American feminism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American_feminism

    While radical Asian American feminists saw decolonization and socialist movements–and thus saw political role models in socialist Asian women–as paths to liberation, liberal feminists, like Patsy Mink, worked within U.S. institutions, advocating for policies that sought equity through inclusion. [5]

  6. Feminism in Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism_in_Japan

    A growing number of young women are remaining unmarried in Japan today, a development often viewed as a rebellion against the traditional confines of women's restrictive roles as wives and mothers. In 2004, 54% of Japanese women in their 20s were single, as opposed to 30.6% in 1985. [ 34 ]

  7. Women in the Americas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Americas

    Women in the Americas or the women who now populate what is known as North America, Central America, the Caribbean and South America arrived via migration. Many origin stories of the Native peoples who populated the Americas contain themes of the people arriving via another place, whether that is from the ground or from waters, and journeying ...

  8. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_women_in_the...

    The Italian-American media disapproved. It demanded the holding of the line regarding traditional gender roles in which men controlled their families. Many traditional patriarchal values prevailed among Southern European male immigrants, although some practices like dowry were left behind in Europe.

  9. Sexual minorities in Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_minorities_in_Japan

    In Japan, gender and sexuality are conceptualized through a spectrum wherein the various social roles of the “all encompassing” group are emphasized. Under this construction, expressions of gender and sexuality are varied, as is evidenced by Japan's gender-bending communities. [1]