Place of Women In Japan

By Students' Academy

The entire Japanese history shows that the role of gender has been very important principle of stratification, but the modern historians or social scientists have begun to raise questions on it.

Place of Women In Japan
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Chapter One: Introduction and Cultural Background
Chapter Two: Women’s Education
Chapter Three: Working Women
Chapter Four: Changed Society and Women in Japan
Chapter Five: Feminism in Japan
Chapter Six: Women in Politics
Chapter Seven: Suffrage of Women
Chapter Eight: Women’s Language in Japan
Chapter Nine: Modern Education
Chapter Ten: Women and Art and Literature
Chapter Eleven: Prostitution in Japan
Chapter Twelve: Modern Working Women in Japan

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Mar 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311862402

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Chapter One: Introduction and Cultural Background

A traditionally made up Japanese woman

In Japan, women are a dominant force to reckon with. They are involved in almost every field. Before the Second World War the condition of women in Japan was not as good as it is today.

After the Second World War, things changed greatly in favour of women in Japan. Since the Great War, the role of a Japanese woman has been that of the office lady. She becomes a housewife, and then eventually education mother after her marriage.

The entire Japanese history shows that the role of gender has been very important principle of stratification, but the modern historians or social scientists have begun to raise questions on it.

Working women in an arms manufacturing factory in Japan. Japanese women look for possible flaws in the empty shells in a factory in Japan, on September 30, 1941.

There have been gender differences in Japan, but these differences have been according to different times and different social classes.

Ancient Japanese scroll painting of a woman with Halitosis, 12th century.

It is noticeable that in the 8th century there were female emperors in Japan. In the 12th century women in Japan had