>Abe has a good PR team pushing this narrative abroad >While female labor force participation rates are up, most women are locked into lower-level positions wi

>Abe has a good PR team pushing this narrative abroad >While female labor force participation rates are up, most women are locked into lower-level positions with bad wages and little hope of advancement. How is that the government's fault? That sounds like a problem at the corporations. In any democratic country, the government only has so much power over the personnel decisions of companies. You can argue they should have more regulation, but how exactly do you force companies to promote more women into the executive ranks without having the government basically take over the corporations (which reeks of authoritarianism)? >This has been led in no small part by Abe and the LDP, who insist on the enforcement of absolutely regressive social mores. Examples? >Most recently, they vehemently opposed women being allowed to keep their own last names upon marriage. Did they succeed? As for misogyny and Americans, is Japan trying to ban abortion? They most certainly are in America, and it's quite possible it'll happen to some extent thanks to Trump's SCOTUS appointees.