New Japan Women's League

The New Japan Women's League (NJWL or Shin Nihon Fujin Dōmei), was a women's organization established on November 3, 1946[1] in order to improve women's legal status in Japan,[2] and inform Japanese women about democracy and citizenship.[3] Fusae Ichikawa served as the first president.[4] The organization was strictly non-partisan.[5]

The NJWL was influenced by pre-WWII suffrage organizations and did not mention gender equality or women in the workforce in its founding principles.[6] NJWL and Ichikawa worked to "struggle against conservative social taboos."[7] NJWL lobbied the government over laws and policies that were unequal in treatment of men and women.[5]

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Mackie, Vera (2003). Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality. Cambridge University Press. p. 122. ISBN 0521820189.
  2. ↑ Hunter, Janet (1984). Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. University of California Press. pp. 64–65. ISBN 0520043901.
  3. ↑ Shigematsu, Setsu (2012). Scream From the Shadows: The Women's Liberation Movement in Japan. University of Minnesota Press. p. 8. ISBN 9780816667581.
  4. ↑ Lublin 2013, p. 135.
  5. 1 2 Kobayashi, Yoshie (2004). A Path Toward Gender Equality: State Feminism in Japan. Routledge. p. 40. ISBN 0203577957.
  6. ↑ Garon, Sheldon (1997). Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. Princeton University Press. p. 182. ISBN 0691044880.
  7. ↑ Palmer, Alan (2002). Who's Who in Modern History: From 1860 to the Present Day. Routledge. p. 173. ISBN 0415118859.

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