{"id":28631,"date":"2021-02-18T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/18\/japans-ruling-party-invites-women-to-meetings-but-wont-let-them-speak"},"modified":"2021-02-18T21:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:35:13","slug":"japans-ruling-party-invites-women-to-meetings-but-wont-let-them-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28631","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s ruling party invites women to meetings \u2013 but won&#8217;t let them speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LDP\u2019s attempt to demonstrate gender equality after Olympic sexism row backfires<\/p>\n<p>It was a move designed to show that Japan\u2019s ruling party was committed to gender equality after the sexism row that forced one of its former prime ministers, Yoshiro Mori, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/feb\/12\/tokyo-olympics-chief-resigns-over-sexist-comments\">resign<\/a> as head of Tokyo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/feb\/18\/tokyo-2020-japan-to-appoint-olympic-seiko-hashimoto-sexism-row\">Olympic organising committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The time had come to give female members of the Liberal Democratic party (LDP) more prominence at key meetings, the party\u2019s secretary general, Toshihiro Nikai, said this week, days after Mori had stepped down following his claim that meetings attended by \u201ctalkative women\u201d tended to \u201cdrag on\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/18\/japans-ruling-party-invites-women-to-meetings-but-wont-let-them-speak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LDP\u2019s attempt to demonstrate gender equality after Olympic sexism row backfiresIt was a move designed to show that Japan\u2019s ruling party was committed to gender equality after the sexism row that forced one of its former prime ministers, Yoshiro Mori, t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1445,"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":[41,646,88,704,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/28631","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\/1445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28632,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28631\/revisions\/28632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}