Women overtook men for the first time in the acceptance rate at Japan s medical schools for the 2021 academic year that started in April, an education ministry survey shows, in a sign of improvement over gender-based discrimination in entrance examinations that came to light a few years ago.
Students applying to enter public high schools from next spring will no longer be required to specify their gender on the application form in all of Japan s 47 prefectures except Tokyo, local education boards say.
At least 80 percent of fine arts professors at universities, and film and theater awards judges in Japan are male, according to a survey released by an arts organization, highlighting the gender imbalance in the field.
In a move to promote a more diversified society, an increasing number of Japanese firms have started to support female entrepreneurs, hoping to revitalize the economy with services and products design
FEATURE: Why a Japanese man proudly took his wife s last name
Shu Matsuo Post is a man who calls himself a feminist. But he wasn t born a feminist, and for the first 28 years of his life he never tried to understand what it was like to be a girl and a woman in a patriarchal society.
Then he met his now-wife Tina, who taught him that he has been socially conditioned to see things a certain way. She helped him realize he doesn t need to be macho to be a man or follow the dating script that says he pays. He had his feminist awakening.