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Author Eto, Mikiko

Title Women and Political Inequality in Japan Gender Imbalanced Democracy
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (259 p.)
Series Routledge Contemporary Japan Ser
Routledge Contemporary Japan Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Notes -- 2 What influences the legislative representation of women? -- Structural barriers to legislative representation of latecomers -- Factors in changing the number of women in legislatures -- Foundations for women's political activities -- Gender culture -- Welfare states -- Political institutions affecting the number of women legislators -- Electoral systems -- Overview of electoral systems worldwide
Women-friendly electoral systems -- Party politics -- State-initiated positive plans -- Women's Policy Machinery -- Gender Quota Laws -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Gender inequality in Japanese society -- Measuring socio-cultural prevalence of gender equality -- Women in the workforce -- Uneven progress of Japanese women in economy and politics -- Influence of the increasing number of working women on developing gender culture -- Inconsistency of women's presence in economy and politics -- "Gender" problems in Japanese politics -- Language of gender in Japanese society
Old guard reaction against the concept of gender -- Logic behind the old guard reaction -- Moves to develop gender culture in Japanese politics -- Legislative debate over the concept of gender -- A game changer outside politics -- 3 Gender culture in Japanese socio-politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Classifying Japan's welfare state from gender perspectives -- Care work and japanese working women -- Socializing care for older adult Japanese -- State childcare services -- Gender-biased taxation and social insurance scheme -- Patterns of Japanese women's working lives -- Spousal tax deductions
Social insurance benefits for non- or low-income spouses of employees -- Working style inharmonious with life -- 4 A Japanese gender-biased welfare state -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Japanese women and elections -- Women's suffrage -- Women's voting behavior -- Lower House elections -- Multi-ballot rule in the general election of 1946 -- SNTV between 1947 and 1993 -- Combined-independent rule from 1996 -- Upper House elections -- Local assembly elections -- 5 Effects of Japan's electoral system on women's candidacy and winning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Politics as men's business
"One-to-a-half" balancer -- Substituting women for men -- Women in party realignment -- Weakening LDP dominance -- Power reshuffle and the aftermath -- Women as agents of political change -- Finding "Madonna" candidates -- Placing women in the center -- Regime change and democratic women -- Moving beyond tokenism -- 6 Women in Japanese party politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- UN resolutions on women and the Japanese government -- Political objections against gender quotas -- Examining the diet objections from feminist perspectives -- Stigmatizing women as powerless
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Women -- Political activity -- Japan
Politics and culture -- Japan
Women's rights -- Japan
Politics and culture
Women -- Political activity
Women's rights
Japan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1000283127
9781000283129