Tag - feminism

 
 

FEMINISM

LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 19, 2013
Sewing words for thought
Some words can evoke powerful images, values and stereotypes that have crept into our subconsciousness to sometimes dictate the way we think or behave. For Ruri Clarkson, this is something that needs to be challenged in Japan, and which she does herself with art.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 15, 1999
Japanese women say single life fine — if they're financially independent
Some say that '70s feminism began its fall from grace in 1986 when a study claimed that a woman's chances of marrying sometime in her life drops to 5 percent after she passes her 35th birthday. The notion that so many nominally liberated women found this conclusion distressing gave rise to the cynical...

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Japan's growing ranks of centenarians are redefining what it means to live in a super-aging society.
What comes after 100?