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canigetawhatwhat
Womenomics as planned! Another round of applause for Abe.
dbsaiya
Exactly, Abe's womenomics is an abject failure for women. If you want to go further, how is the household supposed to support online education? No PC, and more than likely no high speed internet, probably just the mom's smartphone. How is the mother supposed to pay for the expensive after school entrance cram jukus? Abe was born with a silver spoon and doesn't have children, he has no idea of the ordinary person's struggles let alone a single mom.
kurisupisu
if Japan were a first world country then support would be much more forthcoming and this article would not exist!
However, it is not..
kohakuebisu
What percentage of single mothers in Japan get full maintenance payments from their children's fathers? The only data I could find was from 2011, but it said it was only 20%. This is far too low. If it were higher, both parents would have to have no work for a single mother to have "no income" during a crisis like this.
https://rikon.authense.jp/column/rikon-100.html
Getting back to the bigger problem of part-time workers in general, anyone working more than say 20 hours a week should be on employment insurance (koyou hoken). This is paid by both the worker and the employer, so some will see it as a tax (and "robbery" etc.), but it would provide a safeguard for times like this and help close the gap between regular and non-regular employees.
Jonathan Prin
nothing has changed.
Japan shooting itself in the foot.
In dire times, women (or men) shall be rewarded with social subsidies if raising children.
It is a country's future.
Goodlucktoyou
I’m shy, but the demographics I most have social interaction with are these people. I know many rich males, but they are mostly cold self centered individuals.
Do the hustle
60% of the workforce are classified as non-regular workers.
ballsahoy
And they're forbidden to work part-time to supplement this low income.
wanderlust
Some of the biggest spokeswomen for 'Womenomics' in Japan work for foreign companies or are academics, high-ranking and well-paid employees who are given time to speak, indeed it could be cynically called virtue-signalling PR for them. They have almost zero concept of the daily struggles of the average Suzuki-san, juggling 2 or even 3 part-time jobs to make ends meet, and put her children through school.
They should get rid of the male 'oyajis' on these committees and include more local working women, who would know first hand the realities, and work on practical solutions, not vote-grabbing politcal arrows.
drlucifer
Ask Abe, Kato the minister of Mhlw or the bureaucrats and they will tell you with doctored figures that Japan is doing the best in the world.
They will always get away with anything as long as most of the programs are in the hands of yoshimoto comedians some with just JHS certificate.
Wolfpack
Is it really news that a single parent is more likely to be at a disadvantage financially than a married couple? This is an obvious fact. Everyone knows that single parents and their children are much more likely to live in poverty. That story has been written a million times already. Slow news day on JT.
Strangerland
Personally, I want to live in a society that uses its resources to take care of single mothers and their children. Then these children can bring society up, instead of holding it back.
GW
What about single fathers, like men in general, just not on the radar......
drlucifer
Then you should head to France.
Vince Black
Exactly, why about single fathers? Seems like they aren’t recognized in 19th century Japan.