Prime Minister's News Update

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Monday, February 5, 2001

Prime Minister Attends First Meeting of Council
for Gender Equality Expert Study Group

The Expert Study Group on Measures to Help Parents Balance Work and Child Care, set up by the Council for Gender Equality and headed by Keiko Higuchi, a professor at Tokyo Kasei University, held its first meeting at the Prime Minister's Official Residence. Addressing the meeting, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori instructed the group to listen to the views of people actually combining work with child care and compile recommendations that would be helpful to various sectors as quickly as possible.


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