A Path Toward Gender Equality

This dissertation is the first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, focusing on the activities and roles of the Women''s Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While the state feminism theory possesses a strong capability to examine state-society relationships in terms of feminist policy-making, it tends to neglect a state''s activity in improving women''s status and rights in non-western nations where the feminist movements are apathetic or antagonistic to the state and where the state also creates a vertical relationship with feminist groups.

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Table of contents : 1. Introduction
2. Establishment of a Women's Bureau in Japan
3. Ineffective Activity Prior to the International Women's Year
4. Departure from Politics of Protection: Agenda Setting Process
5. Mediator's Role of the Women's Bureau: Activities in the Decision Making for the 1986 EEOL
6. Activity of the Women's Bureau for Amendment of the EEOL
7. Conclusion