Japan’s ruling party invites more women to meetings, as long as they don’t talk – ABC News

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, long seen as a homogeneous redoubt of elderly men, now wants more women at its key meetings provided they don’t do the talking.

• Only three of the 25 members of the LDP’s national council are women
• Japan is ranked 121st out of 153 countries on a Global Gender Gap Index
• Tokyo Olympics chief and LDP member Yoshiro Mori resigned last week after comments he made about women

The party, in power for most of the time since 1955, has proposed allowing five female politicians…

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