We are heading the end of March already😲!
This month, we have Girls’ day on the 3rd and also recently, International Women’s day on the 8th is getting popular in Japan too.
I heard that this Women’s day was started from Italy with other more movements that took place in the world previously.
Although the level of Japan’s gender equality and women’s status is said to be quite behind compared to the other leading countries, I personally think that that is also rooted from the women’s cognition and wishes here as well.
Meaning, the situation here cannot be made only by men, should be involving women too, and that leads to the question how much the women here want to make the change for “equality”.
A friend of mine who is from another country and had lived in Japan for a while said before that here in this country, there were lots of “benefits” from being a woman – first I was a bit surprised to hear a foreign woman say something like that, because it is quite normal rather to criticize about Japan’s women situation…..
According to her, there are lots of things treating woman with a special benefits, such as train vehicle only for women, lunch discounts only for women, and, maybe some more in those very old-style Japanese companies where women are most likely “exempted” from any large missions and responsibilities.
Well, of course it depends on every each woman if these things are interpreted as benefit or “discrimination” – and so to say, this situation somehow remains unequal between men and women in this country also because some women here actually do not want to have the “Real Equality” – this is something to consider, I think!
For me, I prefer equality in mentality and also society aspects, but still, to be honest for some parts I am not sure if I really can take and embrace all the responsibilities that are currently on men….I think in that sense, we should change and reduce some burden that are on men too!
Cherry blossoms were beautiful last night🧡
We are holding a meditation session on the next full moon night, Monday, March 29 at 21:00 JST!
Anyone can join for free and if you are interested, please check out this page and let me know!