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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.
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From the elegant “Yamato Nadeshiko” to the trendsetting “Gyaru,” discover the eight distinct archetypes that reflect the complexities and nuances of women’s roles and personalities in Japanese society.
There used to be two big categories separating Japanese women: sengyo-shufu (専業主婦) (full-time housewife) and career women (キャリアウーマン). Nowadays, however, with an increase of women in the workforce—especially working mothers—there are additional terms that express women with jobs.
Meet four Japanese women who were pioneers in education and medicine. Tsuda Umeko, Oyama Sutematsu, Ogino Ginko, and Kusumoto Ine fought the status quo and created new opportunities for the generations of women who followed.
The concept of the “status of women” frames everything from popular conceptions of “Asian” women as submissive, to US foreign policy as focused on liberating women, to the policies of the International Monetary Fund that promote Japanese and Korean women in the workplace.