For Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party), which appeals to conservative voters, the figure was 30.4%. In the Democratic Party for the People, women accounted for 40.9% of candidates. The Japanese Communist Party fielded 32 women, accounting for 55.2% of all its candidates. The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan fielded 26 female candidates, one more than its 25 male candidates. The opposition parties led the way in terms of fielding women candidates. The law calls for political parties to make efforts to ensure that the numbers of female and male candidates they field are as close to even as possible. This is widely recognized as a significant breakthrough by the public since the July 10 election was the third nationwide election since the passage in 2018 of the Law on Promotion of Gender Equality in the Political Field. This is the first time in Japan’s political history that the percentage of female candidates exceeded 30% in a nationwide election. Of the 545 candidates who ran, 181 were women, accounting for 33.2%. There were other positive signs in this House of Councillors election. Overall, women account for only 15.4% of all Diet members. However, the percentage of women in the House of Representatives - Japan’s lower house - is less than 10%. Female candidates won 28% of the 125 races. In Japan’s July 10 election, a record 35 women were elected to seats in the upper house, surpassing the previous high of 28 in 2019. But there were positive signs of progress in the recent House of Councillors election. While Japanese women politicians are increasing in number, they may still be seen as tokens, by this definition, in the national Diet. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who specializes in strategy, innovation and leadership for change, analyzed corporate organization culture in her seminal 1977 book, “Men and Women of the Corporation.” According to Kanter, when women are treated as tokens, they are not regarded as individuals but as symbolic representatives of all women. Women who are in the minority of a group are often treated as tokens. The now-defunct Japan Socialist Party led by Takako Doi caused the “Madonna boom” in the upper house election in July 1989.īy Yuko Mukai / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
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