Two women are in the running to lead Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and thus be virtually guaranteed to become the country's first female prime minister.
Sanae Takaichi and Yoko Kamikawa are both in the running to become the leader of Japan 's ruling Liberal Democratic Party . Japan could get its first female prime minister if either of the two women running for president of the country's ruling Liberal Democratic Party are successful later this month.
However, observers say having Ms Takaichi smash the political glass ceiling would not necessarily be good for progressive issues in Japan more generally.Ms Takaichi has been a member of Japan's diet, or parliament, since 1993 and ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the LDP in 2021. While she supports childcare subsidies for working women, she has otherwise remained largely silent on Japan's gender gap and is against allowing married women to have separate surnames.Ms Kamikawa, a former think-tank researcher who has a masters degree in public policy from Harvard in the US, has been a member of parliament since 2000.
If no single candidate manages to get 50 per cent, then a runoff is held between the first and second place getters.That will almost certainly be the new leader of the LDP, which has only been out of office twice since it was founded in 1955, because of its parliamentary majority. "It will probably end in a second round run-off between Koizumi and another candidate," Dr Hall said.
The report said the share of women in legislative, senior official, and managerial roles in 2024 had increased by 4.6 percentage points since 2006.
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