Prime Minister's News Update

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Tuesday, September 26, 2000

Council for Gender Equality Submits
Report to Prime Minister

The Council for Gender Equality, an advisory body to the Prime Minister chaired by Sumiko Iwao, Professor at the Musashi Institute of Technology and Professor Emeritus of Keio University, delivered a report to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. The report, "Fundamental Thinking Regarding a Basic Plan for Gender Equality: Major Issues for the Twenty-first Century," represented the results of surveys and deliberations regarding the task with which the council had been charged in August 1999, to define basic policy directions for promoting the formation of a gender-equal society based on the Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society.

The report is divided into two parts: "Basic Approach to the Realization of a Gender-Equal Society" and "Basic Policy Directions for the Future and Specific Initiatives." Part two enunciates "viewpoints" and "specific initiatives" with regard to three subjects: future initiatives in response to changes since the 1996 report "Vision of Gender Equality," establishment of individual dignity, and provision and consolidation of systems to promote gender equality.




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