{"id":15496,"date":"2020-03-06T22:18:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/japan-prefecture-to-stop-hiring-female-tea-squad-for-meetings"},"modified":"2020-03-06T22:18:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:18:43","slug":"japan-prefecture-to-stop-hiring-female-tea-squad-for-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15496","title":{"rendered":"Japan prefecture to stop hiring female &#8216;tea squad&#8217; for meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saitama assembly hopes move will reflect changing attitudes towards women in workplaces<\/p>\n<p>A local government assembly is attempting to shake up Japan\u2019s conservative workplace culture by ending the custom of employing women to serve tea at meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Few official gatherings in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have properly begun until female employees \u2013 known collectively as the <em>ochakumi<\/em> (\u201ctea squad\u201d) \u2013 have placed cups of green tea in front of their invariably male senior colleagues, occasionally accompanied by something sweet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/japan-prefecture-to-stop-hiring-female-tea-squad-for-meetings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saitama assembly hopes move will reflect changing attitudes towards women in workplacesA local government assembly is attempting to shake up Japan\u2019s conservative workplace culture by ending the custom of employing women to serve tea at meetings.Few off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[646,88,704,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-japan","category-women-in-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496\/revisions\/15497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}