Gender equality still an issue in Japan?

June 22, 2011
By Ken Worsley

A government paper published on Tuesday said that women make up 11% of lower house members and 1% of corporate leaders. While figures from various media sources vary, it seems clear that Japan has a very low percentage of women in positions of power. Foreign critics, predictably, seem to have no solutions to propose, but only criticism of Japan to put forth.
The Straits Times said this:
‘Japan is behind the international standard in terms of female presence in the political sector,’ the paper said, suggesting that the country introduce quotas like Sweden, Germany and South Korea have done in the past