Japan’s Parliament Remains a Man’s World Despite Womenomics Push
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The good news for women is that the number of female lawmakers in Japan rose after yesterday’s election. The bad news: the lower house is still 91 percent male.
Forty-five of the 475 lawmakers elected to parliament are female, up from 38 before yesterday’s election, according to public broadcaster NHK. That’s a long way short of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s target of having women in 30 percent of leadership roles in all sectors by 2020.