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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