Japan hat seine erste weibliche Führungskraft. Fragen Sie sie einfach nicht nach Feminismus

*From Bloomberg News reporter Isabel Reynolds*

When Seiko Noda entered Japan’s parliament in 1993 as the first woman elected to the lower house from the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, she was dismayed to find no women’s restroom. The rookie lawmaker had to slip into the men’s facilities, where a small area had been partitioned off for the few female members.

That early sense of being somewhere she didn’t belong set the tone for a career she’s spent pushing her overwhelmingly male party to improve female representation and to ease the broader struggles facing Japanese women. Three decades later, parliament’s facilities have improved, but progress for women in most other areas has been uneven.

[Read more here](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/sanae-takaichi-is-japan-s-first-female-leader-but-equality-remains-elusive).