Table of Contents
Part 1 Overview of trends in achieving gender equality and women's advancement
- Background to the formulation of the National Plan of Action
- Public opinion regarding the gender-equal society
- Activities of non-governmental organizations(NGOs),etc.
- Strengthening the organization for creating a gender-equal society
- The proposal for a basic law designed to promote a gender-equal society
Part 2 Budgetary and institutional measures
- Budgetary measures
- Follow-up mechanism of the Beijing Platform for Action
- The Role of NGOs in supporting the Beijing Platform for Action
Part 3 Implementing the high priority items identified by the Beijing Platform for Action
A. Innovative policies, programs, projects, and best practices
- Women and poverty
- Education and training of women
- (1)
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Promoting gender equality by opening the way for a diversity of choices through enrichment of education and learning
- 1)
- Enhancing elementary and secondary education for gender equality
- 2)
- Promoting gender equality in institutions of higher education
- 3)
- Promoting social education
- 4)
- Promoting women's social participation and life-long learning
- 5)
- National Women's Education Centre
- 6)
- Course and employment guidance
- 7)
- Program for educational reform
- Women and health
- (1)
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Supporting the health of women throughout life
- 1)
- Enhancing women's health education and counseling support
- 2)
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Supporting the health of pregnant women and childbirth
- a)
- Partial amendment to the Law on Control and Improvement of Amusement Business
- b)
- Telephone clubs
- 3)
- Promoting measures to prevent osteoporosis
- 4)
- Amendment to the Eugenic Protection Law
- Violence against women
- (1)
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Eliminating all forms of violence against women
- 1)
- Studying comprehensive measures towards the elimination of violence against women
- 2)
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Promoting comprehensive measures against prostitution
- a)
- Partial amendment to the Law on Control and Improvement of Amusement Business
- b)
- Telephone clubs
- 3)
- Domestic violence
- 4)
- Promoting measures to prevent sexual harassment
- 5)
- Enhancing measures to provide consultation,protection and relief to women victims of violence
- 6)
- Offering courses and training for staff involved in interviewing, providing guidance and protecting victimized women, and prosecuting violence against women
- 7)
- The issue known as"Wartime Comfort Women"
- 8)
- Contribution to the UNIFEM
- Women and armed conflict
- Women and the economy
- (1)
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Ensuring equal opportunity and equal treatment in employment
- 1)
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Amendment to the Equal Employment Opportunity Law
- a)
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Strengthening the Equal Employment Opportunity Law
- (i)
- Prohibition of discrimination against women in recruitment,hiring, assignment, and promotion
- (ii)
- Strengthening measures to ensure the effectiveness of law
- (iii)
- Establishment of regulation to promote positive action
- (iV)
- Establishment of regulations to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace
- (V)
- Mandatory maternal health care
- b)
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Revision of Labour Standards Law
- (i)
- Abolition of restrictions on overtime work,holiday work, or night work by women
- (ii)
- Extension of maternity leave period in case of multiple pregnancy
- c)
- Establishment of measures to restrict night work by employees taking care of children or other family members(revision of the Child Care and Family Care Leave Law)
- (2)
- Ratifying the ILO 156 Convention (A convention regarding the equal opportunity and treatment of women and men with family responsibilities)
- (3)
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Establishment an environment that allows workers to continue working while taking care of children or family members
- 1)
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Enhancing the conditions for workers taking care of children and other family members
- a)
- Revision of the Child Care Leave Law
- b)
- Establishment of the child care leave benefits and family care leave benefits
- (4)
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Enhancing measures to support child care taking into account diverse life styles
- 1)
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Enhancing child care services
- a)
- Enhancing child care measures that meet demand
- (5)
- Promoting measures for part-time work
- (6)
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Building partnerships in rural communities
- 1)
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Improving the economic status of women, working conditions and environment
- a)
- Improving the economic status of women in rural communities
- (7)
- Support for women entrepreneurs
- (8)
- Quantifying unpaid work
- Women in power and decision-making
- (1)
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Expanding women's participation in the policy and decision-making process
- 1)
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Increasing participation by women in national policy decision-making processes
- a)
- Promoting the participation of women in national advisory committees
- b)
- Supporting the appointment of women to advisory councils and committees in prefectures and designated cities
- c)
- Participation of women in the policy and decision-making processes in rural communities
- 2)
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Promoting women's participation in the policy and decision-making process in the international arena
- a)
- Promoting Japanese women representation in international organizations
- Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
- (1)
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Developing and strengthening the structure for comprehensive implementation
- 1)
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Strengthening the organization and functions of national machinery
- a)
- Enhancement of responsible ministries and agencies in the Headquarters for the Promotion of Gender Equality
- b)
- Establishment of a new council to promote the achievement of a gender-equal society
- c)
- The Liaison Conference for the Promotion of Gender Equality
- 2)
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Investigations into a basic law designed to promote a gender-equal society
- a)
- Basic philosophies
- b)
- National and local governments and citizen's obligations
- c)
- Basic issues concerning the promotion of the achievement of a gender-equal society
- d)
- Council for Gender Equality
- 3)
- Strengthening cooperation between national and local governments
- 4)
- Strengthening cooperation with NGOs
- Human rights of women
- (1)
- Strengthening the legal literacy of women
- (2)
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Enhancing the conditions for enabling the elderly to live in safety and security
- 1)
- Promoting the health and welfare measures for the elderly
- 2)
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Introduction of a new care system
- a)
- Establishment of a long-term insurance system
- (3)
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Strengthening measures for the disabled
- 1)
- Considering for people with disabilities
- 2)
- The Week for the Disabled
- (4)
- Promotion of measures related to the "UN Decade of Human Rights Education"
- Women and the media
- (1)
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Supporting media efforts to adopt expressions that respect the human rights of women
- 1)
- Promoting measures to prevent involuntary exposure to expressions of sex and violence
- 2)
- Studying the establishment of regulation on information on the Internet and other new media
- (2)
- Promoting gender-free expressions in official releases and publications of official organizations
- Women and the environment
- The girl-child
- (1)
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Strengthening Measures against child prostitution
- 1)
- The World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and follow-up actions
- (2)
- Child abuse
B. Obstacles and how they are being overcome
- Education and training of women
- Women and health
- Violence against women
- Women and the economy
- Women in power and decision-making
- Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
- Human rights of women
- Women and the media
- The girl-child
C. Commitment to further action and initiatives
- WID initiative
- (1)
- Education
- (2)
- Health
- (3)
- Economic and social participation
- Meeting of Senior Officials of National Machinery for the Advancement of Women in East and Southeast Asian Countries
- Examination of a new basic plan for promoting the creation of a gender-equal society
- Japan's vision for equality and the advancement of women in the new millennium
(Annex)
Common data sets / indicators for measuring development progress