Gender and Structural Inequality
Structural mechanisms of gender inequality, including the gender wage gap, time poverty from unpaid labor, and the hollowing-out of women's empowerment legislation.
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Insights & Analysis
Japan’s Customer Harassment and Job-Seeker Sexual Harassment: Who Takes Reports?
Labor & EmploymentLegal & RegulatoryGenderJapan
Insights & Analysis
After a DV report, who checks that protection reached home?
WelfareGenderGovernanceJapan
Insights & Analysis
89.1% of Japan's 661,000 Local Government Fiscal-Year Appointees Work Part-Time and 75.8% Are Women — Outside the 19-Hour-25-Minute Line Sit Another 452,697
Labor & EmploymentLocal GovernmentGenderJapan
Labs
The Statistical Absence of Femicide (The Structure of Deaths That Cannot Be Counted)
AgnotologyStrategic IgnoranceGenderJapan
Insights & Analysis
Time Asymmetry in Pediatric Care: How Japan's 71.9% Dual-Income Reality Collides with Medical Access
Health & MedicineWelfareLabor & EmploymentGender
Insights & Analysis
When Sick-Child Care Fails on the Day of Fever: Japan's Social-Security Gap
WelfareSocial IssuesPolicy AnalysisGender
Insights & Analysis
The Gender Wage Gap in International Comparison – Three Institutional Designs and the 134-Country Child Penalty Atlas
WagesInequalityLabor & EmploymentGender
Insights & Analysis
When Private Afterschool Care Costs Exceed Take-Home Pay — The Market Mechanics of Japan's Child Penalty
WelfareEducationLabor & EmploymentWages
Insights & Analysis
The Year of the Fire Horse 2026 and the Truth Behind Japan's Declining Birthrate: When Superstition Has No Room Left to Move
PopulationDemographicsPolicy AnalysisSocial Issues
Practice Guides
Gender Mainstreaming Practical Guide for NPOs — How to Integrate Gender Perspectives into Organizations and Operations
GenderNPOGuideSocial Issues
Insights & Analysis
'Not Enough Time' Is Not a Personal Problem — The Structure of Time Poverty Produced by a 5.5-fold Gender Gap in Unpaid Labor
GenderLabor & EmploymentWelfareJapan
Insights & Analysis
Structures Preserved in the Name of 'Women's Empowerment' — What the Revised Act Reveals About Japan's Gender Gap
GenderPolicy AnalysisLabor & EmploymentJapan
Practice Guides
Gender Equality and Organizational Design — A Practical Guide
GuideGenderOrganizational DesignLabor & Employment