What is SDGs Goal 5? SDGs Goal 5 is “Gender equality,” with its mission statement being “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.” This goal has 9 targets and 14 indicators measuring how much the world has achieved for...
SHIBUYA109 Lab., a marketing agency by SHIBUYA109 Entertainment Co. Ltd. recently surveyed with 800 youths, consisting of 400 males and 400 females. It refers to them as the “around20”, a group of Generation Z (Gen Z) population aged...
Japanese women spend seven times as much time doing housework than their male partners. According to a survey last year by Nippon.com, wives spend an average of four and a half hours doing housework during the week, while their husbands do less than...
Japan came in 121st in a recent global gender equality ranking conducted by the World Economic Forum. This means Japan ranked even worse than it did previously and is currently the lowest among the Group of Seven countries. What does this tell us...
AIR Inc., a company based in Tokyo, is engaged in business such as drone industry, crowd funding and event planning. It carried out a survey related to SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) with the members of the “joshikai community” (women-only...
A recent survey has cast a spotlight on Japan’s nuanced perspectives on gender inequality. Spanning 33 countries and encompassing over 26,259 participants, the study aimed to decipher global sentiments on equality issues. Distilling the...
There are many issues regarding gender in Japan, particularly around gender equality and LGBTQ and diversity. Here are the top articles that Zenbird readers have been interested in 2022 regarding gender and equality. Contents What is LGBTQQIAAPPO2S...
Japan is generally thought of as a country with a conservative culture and traditional gender role expectations. Men are still generally expected to be breadwinners working long hours and women are expected to stay at home and raise children. There...
Despite the former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, declaring in 2013 to improve gender equality and to promote women’s empowerment in Japan, it’s hard to say the country’s attempt to create ‘a society in which all women...
Japan is one of the world’s biggest economy. However, equality between the sexes continues to slump far behind other countries in the developed world. Over the past twenty years, the Japanese government has formulated a variety of policies aimed at...