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Japan s powerful patriarchy often sidelines women Fixing that won t be easy
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Address the silent crisis of India’s gender deficit
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Gender discrimination pervades India’s socio-economic pyramid. At its upper reaches, we encounter anecdotes of single women entrepreneurs finding it difficult to get bank loans. At the other extreme, in the poverty-ridden ‘red corridor’ that runs along a belt from Jharkhand to Andhra Pradesh, injustices of the most violative kind are observed to have driven women to join the Maoist insurgency. These phenomena are not recent. But instead of improving, by and large, life for women is worsening in the country. The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2021, released last week, lays bare our silent crisis of gender inequality, aggravated by the covid pandemic in ways that we are yet to fully understand. India has slipped 28 places to 140th position among 156 countries on the WEF’s Global Gender Gap Index. The country is now 37.5% short of an ideal situation of equality, b
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Abenomics never worked on structural reform It is extremely depressing
Japan s overall score could have been far worse, but the country s position was boosted by relatively high figures for health and survival as well as educational attainment.
Still, the nation was badly let down in its scores for economic participation and, in particular, political empowerment.
Japan was in 147th place in terms of women in politics, a figure that is largely determined by the number of women in a nation s parliament. Just 9.9% of members of the House of Representatives are female and just two of the 21 members of the cabinet are women. Japan also came in a lowly 117th in the economic field, which is primarily based on the ratio of women among senior managers.