Gender gap persists in Japan politics 80 years after women cast 1st ballots

Gender equality in politics remains far from achieved across Japan's 47 prefectures, research by a group of experts showed Sunday as it released local gender gap index scores on International Women's Day.While nearly 80 years have passed since women in Japan first exercised their right to vote, the politics index fell in eight prefectures, including Kanagawa near Tokyo, from the 2024 figures, while many other prefectures also saw little change.With a score of 1 representing full equality, Tokyo scored 0.386, ranking first for the fifth consecutive year, helped by a high percentage of women …READ FULL ARTICLE