Gender Inequality In Japan

Gender inequality is one of the most significant fundamental cause for violence against women, which is greatly influenced by the historical and structural power imbalances between males and females which exists in differing degrees all across the world. An overrepresentation of women in service sector jobs and an underrepresentation of woman in jobs that require managerial work reinforces men and women into socially constructed gender roles. Gender Inequality arises from the differences in these socially constructed gender roles. In status quo, gender inequality is portrayed in many different forms such as but not limited to sexual harassment, gender-based violence and gender pay gap in the workforce. In this essay, we seek to analyze the …show more content…
Japan is heavily influenced by Confucian ideals and the society's traditional ideals are of heavily based on the Confucian principle that "men are superior to women." Although some parts of the world have begun to to progress beyond these stereotypical view on gender roles, Japan is still highly traditional. It is the norm in Japan to expect the men to be the primary breadwinner of the household, who supports the family financially, and for women to be the primary caregiver in family, who stays at home to give birth to many children and look after the family. This is proven by a study conducted in 2012, in which 51% of the Japanese population thought that women should stay at homes and care for the family while the husbands work. (Bauwens, 2013) The traditional perceptions that women should simply stay at home and be full time housewives while the men head outside to work which originates from the socially constructed rigid gender roles makes it seem impossible for women to combine work and family or simply not have a family and focus on her career. If the community does not put an end to the deeply-rooted traditional perceptions of gender roles, gender inequality will …show more content…
Women no longer feel the need to mound themselves into the full-time housewife that societal's rigid gender roles have once pressured them to become. They would be free to pursue their career. The removal of stereotyped gender roles would also increase job opportunities, which provide benefits and pay that is equal to one of a male counterpart, for women as women would be one step closer to being able to be both a mother and have career and companies no longer have to worry about women leaving once they have a family. Education is would not reduce gender inequality in many advanced countries such as Japan which already a provide equal education opportunity for both genders. The root of the problem in countries such as Japan is due to deep-rooted traditional ideals and perceptions of genders and regular education would not have any effect for it is already provided to the country. Instead, with time, specifically educating the future generation on the importance of gender equality would be more useful in helping to rectify the deep-rooted perception and treatments of individuals based on their genders than regular school education. Under the condition that