Following are readers' responses to Kris Kosaka's March 31 Zeit Gist article, "Women, know your place":

Japanese officials and the people as a whole worry about the future of this nation because they are denying that future every day — the women.

I have to agree that Japan has a huge population of overqualified housewives. The women in Japan need to stand up and really put forward what they know. It's a shame that the women in the article sacrificed such careers for subservient home duties.