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"Less than a year ago, voters in Japan had to look very hard to find a woman’s
name on ballot papers for the lower house election. But as the country prepares
to go to the polls again this weekend, they are comparatively spoiled for
choice.
About a third of the candidates in this Sunday’s upper house election are women
– the highest proportion since Japanese women won the right to vote and stand
for parliament in 1946.
A record 181 female candidates will be vying for 125 seats – up 77 from the
previous upper house election in 2019 – a trend that has given hope to women
campaigning to break the male stranglehold on Japanese politics. Women comprise
33.2% of all candidates, a level close to the government’s target of 35% by
2025.
The increase is an apparent attempt by Japan’s political parties to honour a
commitment to select similar numbers of male and female candidates, although
only a tiny number took part in recent elections for the more powerful lower
house.
The optimism could be short-lived however. Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic
party (LDP) – which is expected to win more than half the seats on Sunday – has
increased the proportion of female candidates since the last upper house
elections three years ago, but only to 23.2%."
Via
Future Crunch Jul 25, 2022:
https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-aids-botswana-coal-us-ocean-colombia/
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
