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WOMEN

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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 26, 2016
As ongoing drought ravages nation, India's suicide farmers' widows face 'living death'
At the age of 24, Joshna Wandile and her two children were thrown out of the house she shared with her in-laws after her farmer husband hanged himself. He left a pile of debts after years of drought laid waste to his land.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 19, 2016
Why it pays off to hire women as managers
Research suggests that women can be better at making managerial decisions than men, a lesson Japan can benefit from.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2016
The working women windfall
The world has a $12 trillion incentive to accelerate progress toward achieving gender parity.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 8, 2016
Views from Tokyo students: How will you decide how to vote in next month's election?
Hosei University students about the issues that could determine how they vote in July's House of Councilors election, the first in which Japanese 18- and 19-year-olds will be able to cast ballots.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 7, 2016
Women's empowerment: The time is now, Japan
While Japan's GDP growth is declining, the country is experiencing a rise in gross domestic power of the feminine persuasion.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 1, 2016
Diet scraps dated marriage-ban law as session wraps up
An amendment ending a six-month ban on remarriage for newly divorced women passes, nixing a century-old tradition.
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
May 23, 2016
The secret joy of being a Japanese woman (no, really)
This patriarchal society provides a lot more wriggle room for women, leaving men with precious little in terms of loopholes and options.
JAPAN
May 18, 2016
Japan sketches out action plan to address wage disparity and low pay for care workers
Tokyo adopts a draft blueprint to narrow the wage gap between regular and nonregular workers and address other problems of the aging society.
JAPAN / Politics
May 17, 2016
Tokyo and Seoul reaffirm commitment to ¥1 billion 'comfort women' fund
Japanese and South Korean officials say they are track toward setting up a ¥1 billion fund to assist former 'comfort women.'
WORLD / Politics
May 15, 2016
Trump has a history of questionable behavior with women, New York Times reports
Interviews with dozens of women who have worked for Donald Trump or interacted with him socially reveal a pattern of often unsettling personal behavior by the Republican presidential candidate, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
EDITORIALS
May 12, 2016
Getting more women in the Diet
Systemic change is needed to increase female representation in Japan's political sphere.

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