Japanese women in grassroots politics: building a gender-equal society from the bottom up
The 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women highlights the importance of equal participation of women in public life. Since the early 1960s, women in Japan have voted in elections at significantly higher rates than men. However, Japanese women's equa...
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Routledge Taylor and Francis Group
2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23711 |