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A Japanese government report on inequality published in June found that 27% of young women want to leave their hometowns, compared to 15% of young men — and rigid gender roles in rural society are prompting young women to vote with their feet.

The survey shows that most women move to the cities in search of better employment opportunities — but there's a gender angle to that, too. Widespread expectations that women will prioritize housework and childcare also diminish young women's educational prospects, motivating them to leave rural areas. 

In rural communities, "women are stuck in temporary or part-time jobs and only men get promoted. Women don't want to work in these places, so they move to Tokyo," says Chuo University sociologist Masahiro Yamada.

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh nice, I am in that statistics somewhat: I want to emigrate out of this fascistic hellhole. Fuck patriarchs.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Boots be made for walking. You'll be hard-pressed to find a place that's not struggling with fascism nowadays, or free from patriarchal tendencies, but I assume you're in the US, in which case many countries are indeed better.

[–] remon@ani.social 19 points 1 month ago

but I assume you’re in the US

Quite the bold assumption in this context.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Getting those better countries to allow you to move there can be difficult unless you bring skills of value to them (or have a fuck-ton of money already).

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Several; Aleutian Islands, Hawaiian islands, California's Channel Islands, and the Florida Keys all are archipelagos.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TIL. hopefully none of those are below 60KM the glacier melt rise. /s

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well parts of some are above projected sea level rise, none are safe from the rising tide of fascism. I wish I could say /s

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Japan can be saved if America fails spectacularly enough. And if that doesn't work well... Shinzo Abe

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m trying to comprehend this joke. What do you mean by “saved”?

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Not fall all the way down the facism hole. Maybe. Looking pretty grim even in Europe

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Japan's not waiting around for America to sink itself - they're already working out deals with China. They're not dumb like America.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That doesn't preclude facism. And you do realize China is also a problem right?

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago

Didn't say either of those things. But reality must be dealt with, or it will deal with you - seems to me they're trying to do the former.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That cancer is spreading worldwide.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We didn't start the fire 🎶

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

We are the fuel it lives on.