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- From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
- Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:43:28 GMT
- References: <BzJ4Av.353@CAM.ORG> <BzKy05.3Lz@jrd.dec.com> <1992Dec21.190036.1892@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.190036.1892@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st911293@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
- >In article <BzKy05.3Lz@jrd.dec.com>, doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi) writes:
- >>In article <BzJ4Av.353@CAM.ORG>, cheung@CAM.ORG (Shirley Cheung) writes:
- .....
- >># I wonder how
- >># long will the Japanse society take to match the same level of equality as
- >># in North America.
-
- >>Who says equality is good?
-
- > I wonder if you would
- >put such a rhetorical question if there were more Japanese
- >women on the net. Maybe you feel safe to do so because there
- >*are* so few with access to the privileges you have.
-
- Hey, hey. Give him a break. Even though he occasionally posts some
- anti-Giants message because there don't seem to be many Giants fans
- here B-), I don't believe that his questions in his previous posting were
- based on an assumption that there are only few female netters. I understood
- that his questions were just meant to be a catalyst to extract opinions
- from more netters including Japanese female netters who do not usually
- participate in the discussion.
-
- >In any case, I find it personally hard to believe that Japanese
- >women as a category would be so different from women in general
-
- I also find it personally hard to believe that Japanese men as a
- category would be so different from men in general.
-
- >>Who says Japanese women want to be equal..
-
- Good point. It seems to me that there are quite a few Japanese women
- who are more interested in becoming a housewife than persuing a professional
- career. However, in some case, the "equality" movement is pushed further
- to a level that it claims that a professional career is more respectable
- than and superior to a life as a housewife.
-
- --Michiaki
-