Part 1. Basic Philosophy

1. Background
   • (1) Efforts to date
   • (2) The Fourth World Conference on Women
   • (3) Strengthening the national machinery and formulating an overall vision toward the 21st century
2. Basic Philosophy and Structure
   • (1) Philosophy of the Plan for Gender Equality 2000
   • (2) Structure of the Plan for Gender Equality 2000

Part 2. Basic Direction of Measures and Concrete Measures

I. Building Social Systems that Promote Gender Equality

1. Increasing Participation by Women in Policy Decision-Making Processes
   • (1) Increasing participation by women in national policy decision-making processes
     • (a) Promoting participation by women in national advisory councils and committees
     • (b) Promoting recruitment and appointment of women national civil servants
   • (2) Request for the support and cooperation of local governments
     • (a) Support of efforts related to participation by women in advisory councils and committees
     • (b) Request cooperation related to the recruitment and appointment of women civil servants in local governments
   • (3) Support for efforts by private companies, educational/research institutes and other types of organizations
   • (4) Conducting inquiries and collecting/providing information/data
     • (a) Conducting inquiries/research on participation in policy decision-making
     • (b) Collection, organization and provision of information on female human resources
2. Reviewing Social Systems and Practices and Reforming Awareness from the Perspective of Gender Equality
   • (1) Review of social systems and practices from the perspective of gender equality
   • (2) Carrying out informative and educational activities to reach out to a broad sector of the public
   • (3) Strengthening legal literacy
   • (4) Collection, organization and provision of information related to gender equality

II. Achieving Gender Equality in the Workplace, Family and Community

3. Assuring Equal Opportunity and Equal Treatment in Employment
   • (1) Promoting equal opportunity and equal treatment in employment
   • (2) Protection of working women during pregnancy/after childbirth
   • (3) Developing the work talents of women and supporting the display of those talents
   • (4) Establishing employment conditions that enable various working patterns
     • (a) Comprehensive promotion of part-time work measures
     • (b) Promoting measures related to worker dispatching enterprises
     • (c) Supporting women entrepreneurs
     • (d) Support for family employees
     • (e) Promotion of measures concerning new types of work
4. Building Partnerships in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Villages
   • (1) Reforming awareness and actions in all fora
   • (2) Increasing participation by women in policy decision-making processes
   • (3) Improving the economic status of women and improving work conditions/environment
   • (4) Creating an environment conducive to the lives and activities of women
   • (5) Establishing conditions where the elderly can lead active, secure lives
5. Supporting Women and Men to Harmonize Work with Family and Community Life
   • (1) Enhancing measures to support the alignment of child-raising with diverse ways of life
     • (a) Enhancing measures to support child-raising aligned with diverse ways of life
     • (b) Enhancement of support for single-parent families
   • (2) Improving the environment for the continued employment of workers engaged in child care/family care
     • (a) Establishing an environment that makes it easy to take child care/family care leave and return to the workplace
     • (b) Establishing an environment that makes it easy to continue work while engaging in child care and family care
   • (3) Assistance for those seeking re-employment
     • (a) Promoting extension of re-employment systems
     • (b) Support for those seeking re-employment
   • (4) Promoting joint participation between women and men in family life and community life
     • (a) Promoting joint participation between women and men in family life
     • (b) Promoting joint participation between women and men in the community
     • (c) Improving work conditions (e.g., shortening work hours)
6. Developing Conditions to Enable Elderly People and Others to Live in Peace of Mind
   • (1) Building a family care system that enables the elderly to Live in peace of mind
     • (a) Promoting health and welfare measures for the elderly
     • (b) Securing nursing personnel
     • (c) Establishing a new nursing system
     • (d) Establishing social infrastructure conducive to the independence of the elderly
   • (2) Enhancing income guarantees for the elderly
   • (3) Promoting the participation of the elderly in society
   • (4) Priority on the consideration of those with disabilities

III. Creating a Society where Human Rights of Women are Promoted and Defended

7. Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women
   • (1) Dealing strictly with violence against women
     • (a) Dealing strictly with sexual crimes
     • (b) Taking comprehensive measures against prostitution
     • (c) Ascertaining conditions and promoting countermeasures against domestic violence and other such violence which tends to go unreported
     • (d) Promoting measures to prevent sexual harassment
   • (2) Enhancement of recuperative measures for women victims of violence
     • (a) Enhancing consultation, protection and relief measures for women victims
     • (b) Training personnel involved in interviewing victims, prosecution and providing advice, relief, etc., in relation to incidents of violence against women
   • (3) Creating an environment for the prevention of violence against women
     • (a) Publicity, education and elimination of harmful environments toward a society that prohibits violence against women
     • (b) Strengthening crime prevention
     • (c) Studies and research on the causes and impact of crime and related prevention measures
   • (4) Strengthening cooperation with concerned organizations toward the elimination of violence against women, and studying comprehensive measures
8. Respect for Human Rights of Women in the Media
   • (1) Support for media efforts to adopt expressions that respect the human rights of women
     • (a) Promoting respect for human rights in the media and measures to keep expressions of sex and violence away from those who do not wish to come into contact with them
     • (b) Considering the establishment of rules for the Internet and other new media
     • (d) Promoting gender-free expressions in official releases and publications of official organizations
9. Supporting Life-long Health for Women
   • (1) Spreading awareness of reproductive health/rights
   • (2) Advancing measures to maintain and promote women's health throughout the life cycle
     • (a) Enhancing health education and counseling support to maintain and promote health throughout the life cycle
     • (b) Supporting women's health during pregnancy and childbirth
     • (c) Support for the promotion of women's health during adulthood and old age
   • (3) Promoting measures to address problems that threaten women's health
     • (a) Countermeasures against HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases
     • (b) Promoting measures to prevent drug abuse
10. Promoting Gender Equality to Open the Way for a Diversity of Choices through Enrichment of Education and Learning
    • (1) Education and learning to promote gender equality
      • (a) Enhancing elementary and secondary education
      • (b) Promoting gender equality in institutions of higher learning
      • (c) Promoting social education
    • (2) Enhancing educational and learning opportunities to enable various choices
      • (a) Promoting lifelong learning
      • (b) Enhancing education and learning activities matched to the diversified and sophisticated learning demands of women
      • (c) Enhancing career/employment guidance

IV. Contributing to the "Equality, Development and Peace" of the Global Community

11. Contributing to the "Equality, Development and Peace" of the Global Community
    • (1) Absorbing international norms and standards into Japan
    • (2) Contributing to the "equality, development and peace" of the global community
      • (a) Cooperation in the activities of the United Nations
      • (b) Promotion of WID
      • (c) Contributions of women to peace
      • (d) Promoting participation by women in the policy decision-making process in international areas
      • (e) Promoting international exchange and cooperation

Part 3. Implementation of the Plan

1. Active implementation of measures and regular follow-up
2. Research and the collection, organization and provision of information
3. Developing and strengthening the structure for comprehensive implementation
   • (1) Strengthening the organization and functions of national machinery
   • (2) Strengthening cooperation with national and local governments and NGOs; strengthening measures by the entire nation