Womenomics and Acrobatics: Why Japanese Feminists Remain Skeptical about Feminist State Policy
Womenomics and Acrobatics: Why Japanese Feminists Remain Skeptical about Feminist State Policy
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女性经济学和杂技：为什么日本女权主义者仍然对女权主义国家政策持怀疑态度
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10.20897/femenc.201806
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2018
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Ayako Kano
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Ayako Kano
新自由主义和保守思想在日本被称为“女性经济学”，这是一项旨在提高女性劳动生产率和国家出生率的国策。女权主义者对这一政策持怀疑态度，这一政策是由极端保守和民族主义的首相安倍晋三提出的。《女性经济学》的内容包括一项促进女性担任领导职务的新法律，反映了日本政府对日本国际地位的关注。随着出生率的下降，快速老龄化社会的人口危机是这项政策的另一个背景。提高出生率的政策与提拔女性在职场担任领导职位的政策很难调和。随着新自由主义改革姗姗来迟地引入日本，按性别划分的劳动分工和劳动力市场结构加剧了问题。对新自由主义的抵制来自保守派，因此日本的女权主义者不得不表演复杂的杂技。长期的前景取决于找到在一个可能正在缩小的国家促进平等的方法，同时继续抵制旨在促进女性利益的新自由主义国家政策的诱惑。
Neoliberalism and conservative ideology have come together in Japan as ‘womenomics’, a state policy to boost women’s labour productivity as well as the nation’s birth rate. Feminists have responded with scepticism to this policy, proposed by the strongly conservative and nationalist Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. The content of ‘womenomics’ includes a new law to promote the advancement of women to leadership positions, and reflects the government’s concern for Japan’s international standing. The demographic crisis of a rapidly aging society with a declining birth rate is another background to the policy. Policies to boost the birth rate have been hard to reconcile with policies to promote women in leadership positions in corporate life. The gendered division of labour and the structure of the labour market exacerbate problems as neoliberal reforms are introduced belatedly to Japan. The resistance to neoliberalism has come from conservatives, and thus feminists in Japan have had to perform complicated acrobatics. The long-term prospects depend on finding ways to promote equality in a potentially shrinking nation while continuing to resist the seductions of neoliberal state policies that purport to advance the interests of women.