日本將增加女性領導人人數的努力推遲了十年

日本將增加女性領導人人數的努力推遲了十年

Japan will delay by up to a decade its target to raise the percentage of women in leadership posts to 30 percent – part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s campaign to empower women – after failing to hit the deadline this year, domestic media have reported.

據日本國內媒體報道，日本今年未能如期實現將女性擔任領導職務的比例提高到30%的目標，這是日本首相安倍晉三(Shinzo Abe)旨在賦予女性權力的運動的一部分，但這一目標將推遲10年。

Abe’s policies to boost the role of women in the economy and politics, dubbed “womenomics,” is a pillar of his efforts to cope with Japan’s low birth rate and aging population.

安倍提升婦女在經濟和政治中的作用的政策被稱為“女性經濟學”，是他應對日本低出生率和人口老齡化努力的一個支柱。

Japan’s global ranking on gender parity, however, fell to 121st out of 153 countries in a World Economic Forum report for 2020, the largest gap among advanced countries and down from 101st when Abe took office for a rare second time as prime minister in 2012.

然而，在世界經濟論壇(World Economic Forum)發(fā)布的2020年報告中，日本的全球性別均等排名降至153個國家中的第121位，這是發(fā)達國家之間最大的差距，也低于安倍2012年罕見地第二次出任首相時的第101位。

Only 15 percent of senior and leadership posts are held by women, the report said. Abe’s 19-member cabinet has two female ministers and just shy of 10 percent of lawmakers in parliament’s powerful lower house are women.

報告說，只有15%的高級和領導職位由女性擔任。安倍由19人組成的內閣有兩名女部長，在議會權力強大的下議院，只有不到10%的議員是女性。

“Achieving the target during 2020 is impossible, realistically speaking,” the Mainichi newspaper quoted a government source as saying, without identifying the source.

《每日新聞》援引一名政府消息人士的話稱:“從現實的角度來說，在2020年實現這一目標是不可能的。”該消息人士沒有透露姓名。

The new target date will be postponed to “as early as possible by 2030” in a fresh five-year gender equality plan to be approved by Abe’s cabinet this year, the paper said on Friday.

該報紙周五稱，在安倍內閣今年通過的一項新的性別平等五年計劃中，新的目標日期將“最早推遲到2030年”。

“I think there is a lack of commitment by the government and this is the proof,” said Machiko Osawa, a specialist in labor economics at Tokyo Women’s University, commenting on the delay.

“我認為政府缺乏承諾，這就是證據，”東京女子大學(Tokyo Women 's University)勞動經濟學專家大澤町子(Machiko Osawa)在評論這一推遲時說。

An official at the government’s Gender Equality Bureau said experts were currently discussing the new basic policy plan but she could not say when they would reach a conclusion.

政府性別平等局的一名官員表示，專家們目前正在討論新的基本政策計劃，但她無法透露何時才能得出結論。