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Japan will delay by up to a decade its target to raise the percentage of women in leadership posts to 30 per cent – part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s campaign to empower women – after failing to hit the deadline this year, domestic media have reported.<\/p>\n

Abe’s policies to boost the role of women in the economy and politics, dubbed ”womenomics”, is a pillar of his efforts to cope with Japan’s low birth rate and ageing population.<\/p>\n

Japan’s global ranking on gender parity, however, fell to 121st out of 153 countries in a World Economic Forum report for 2020, the largest gap among advanced countries and down from 101st when Abe took office for a rare second time as prime minister in 2012.<\/p>\n

Only 15 per cent of senior and leadership posts are held by women, the report said. Abe’s 19-member cabinet has two female ministers and just shy of 10% of lawmakers in parliament’s powerful lower house are women. ”Achieving the target during 2020 is impossible, realistically speaking,” the Mainichi newspaper quoted a government source as saying, without identifying the source.<\/p>\n

The new target date will be postponed to ”as early as possible by 2030” in a fresh five-year gender equality plan to be approved by Abe’s cabinet this year, the paper said on Friday.<\/p>\n

”I think there is a lack of commitment by the government and this is the proof,” said Machiko Osawa, a specialist in labour economics at Tokyo Women’s University, commenting on the delay.<\/p>\n

An official at the government’s Gender Equality Bureau said experts were currently discussing the new basic policy plan but she could not say when they would reach a conclusion.<\/p>\n

Source: Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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