In Japan we still have many kinds of discrimination, especially against women.
After the victory of Japan's Women's Football team in World Cup, a lot of TV reporters rushed to the members of Nadeshiko to interview them. Then, they asked such as "Do you want to marry?", "Do you have a boy friend?", "Do you want to become a mom in the future?"
If you said such things to your female colleagues at work, you would be criticized.
How offensive these questions were!
Did they ask at least a member of Samurai blue like this? No.
To give you a background on this situation, there are prejudices like "Football is a sport for men" or "Getting married is an obligation of women". But people often throw these offensive questions without awareness of it. This fact meant we Japanese have discrimination against women potentially, in short, unconscious discrimination.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the number of consultations towards Equal Employment Opportunity clinic was more than 23,000 cases and more than half of them was about sexual harassment. It is followed by being ill‐treated because of marriage, pregnancy and childbirth. I think this totally meant unconscious discrimination. We Japanese should be aware of it, face it and deal with it.
After the victory of Japan's Women's Football team in World Cup, a lot of TV reporters rushed to the members of Nadeshiko to interview them. Then, they asked such as "Do you want to marry?", "Do you have a boy friend?", "Do you want to become a mom in the future?"
If you said such things to your female colleagues at work, you would be criticized.
How offensive these questions were!
Did they ask at least a member of Samurai blue like this? No.
To give you a background on this situation, there are prejudices like "Football is a sport for men" or "Getting married is an obligation of women". But people often throw these offensive questions without awareness of it. This fact meant we Japanese have discrimination against women potentially, in short, unconscious discrimination.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the number of consultations towards Equal Employment Opportunity clinic was more than 23,000 cases and more than half of them was about sexual harassment. It is followed by being ill‐treated because of marriage, pregnancy and childbirth. I think this totally meant unconscious discrimination. We Japanese should be aware of it, face it and deal with it.
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