Survey: Women members make up only 15% of all local assemblies in Japan

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1. And it really is an *old* boys’ club.

   > Female assembly members under age 50 made up only 2.9 percent of the total of 31,722.

   >But young men were also hugely underrepresented as those under 40 made up only 3.1 percent of the total.

2. Why do westerners move to Japan for its culture, and then get pissed Japan doesn’t change its culture into theirs? Narcissism maybe?

3. Are we assuming that men and women are equally likely to *want* to be voted into a local assembly? My wife doesn’t even like being on our local neighborhood community thing all that much…

4. Are women being excluded or discouraged?

   Numbers aren’t the problem. Actions are the problem; if said actions are being performed.

5. Perhaps women just have less of an interest in this male bullshit going on.

   Perhaps they realize how corrupt and stupid all the politics is and nothing actually comes from it.