A TRADITIONAL VIEW OF WOMEN IN JAPAN
The female writer Natsuo Kirono has observed that status of women in modern Japan is derived first from youth and beauty, second from whom they marry and third from the school their kids get into. Their success at being a wife and a mother is measured by things like the school performance of their children and how well they makes box lunches. Even today, many married women still call their husbands shujin (master), send their daughters to charm school to learn how to be good wives and have no ambition to enter the world of overworked, stressed out salarymen. The ideal woman in the eyes of many is still the self-sacrificing “good wife, wise mother.” Child rearing is still regarded as the primary duty of women. Housekeeping is also important. Women are expected to do the cleaning and cooking and in many cases peel apples, get cigarettes and make coffee on the demands of their husbands. Women have traditionally controlled the purse strings in their families. Many give out allowances to their husbands. The Los Angeles Times described one woman who took the money after she paid her mortgage and utilities and placed it into separate envelopes for food, medical expenses, her kids and miscellaneous. Outdated views of women endure in the highest levels of government. In January 2007, Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare minister Hakuo Yanagisawa was widely condemned when he called women “birth-giving machines” in a speech on the declining birth rate.JUST LIKE WOMEN IN JAPAN
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