Reflection #2 Erika Hirayama Law-law 2nd 31509980
The article was about an election held in Italy on June 16th. What is special is that a woman won the vote and became the first female mayor in Rome. Her name is Virginia Raggi, a 37 year-old lawyer. She said that she’s going to restore legality snd transparency to the city’s institutions which means to end the internal corruption. To end in a defeat for city mayoral election in metropolis has taken a beating for the Roberto Giachetti, from Renzi’s center-left Democratic Party (PD), the article reported. This is the summary of the article.
Gender equality is being one of the most important topics these days. Hillary Rodham Clinton the representive example. If she won the election, she is going to be the first president so it is been a hot issue especially in America. Women are trying hard to take part in politics and that percentage is becoming higher. I think it is a good thing for both woman and man to be treated equally. However, when is comes to Japan, the situation is quite different. We only have 11.1% of women engaged in managerial position and this is the worst number compared to other developed countries such as America or France. Those countries are 43.1%and 39.4%, which are the highest number in the world.
I think the reason why it is has such a difference is based on two reasons. First of all, Japanese used to think that woman should do house work inside. This is like one of the traditions and what people used to believe importantly. Though the mind is changing right now, I think there are some people who still the division of gender roles are important in Japan.
The lack of a nursery school is another reasons why women cannot work. It is said that a number of child on the waiting list for daycare is 23167 in Japan. Government is trying hard to change this situation, but because of the low salary of nursery school teacher, many people leave that job so the task is getting harder and it is causing a vicious cycle. In order to make woman be able to work, I think it is important to change the situation and woman should be more positive for doing a job like politician or managerial position, just like the woman’s case in the article. This is what I thought after reading the article.