{"id":51216,"date":"2025-10-22T04:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=51216"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:46:40","slug":"japans-new-pm-sanae-takaichi-makes-history-but-women-ask-what-changes-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=51216","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s new PM Sanae Takaichi makes history, but women ask what changes now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reuters: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TOKYO, Oct 22 – Sanae Takaichi took office on Tuesday as Japan’s\u00a0first female prime minister<\/a>, but her surprisingly male-dominated cabinet and socially conservative track record have left some women ambivalent in a country that lags on gender equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Takaichi on Tuesday appointed only two female ministers in a 19-member cabinet, matching<\/a> her predecessor and falling short of her previously announced plan to ensure women’s representation in top posts “not particularly lower<\/a> than Nordic countries”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The line-up she announced betrayed that promise from the outset,” said Tohko Tanaka, a media and gender studies professor at the University of Tokyo. “This is extremely disappointing and offers no hope for women’s empowerment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about her cabinet’s gender imbalance, Takaichi told a Tuesday press conference that she “prioritised equal opportunity” and “assigned the right people to the right positions”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her options were limited, given that only 13% of her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers are women. The party aims<\/a> to raise the ratio to 30% by 2033.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Female representation in Japanese cabinets has never topped<\/a> 30%, while women comprise much bigger portions of Nordic cabinets, ranging from Denmark’s 36% to Finland’s 61%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters: TOKYO, Oct 22 – Sanae Takaichi took office on Tuesday as Japan’s\u00a0first female prime minister, but her surprisingly male-dominated cabinet and socially conservative track record have left some women ambivalent in a country that lags on gender equality. Takaichi on Tuesday appointed only two female ministers in a 19-member cabinet, matching her predecessor and falling short of her previously announced plan to ensure women’s representation in top posts “not particularly lower than Nordic countries”. “The line-up she announced betrayed that promise from the outset,” said Tohko Tanaka, a media and gender studies professor at the University of Tokyo. “This is extremely disappointing… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51218,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51216\/revisions\/51218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}