A lawmaker in the Japan Restoration Party was jeered during a meeting at parliament and told by a male lawmaker she “should give birth to a baby.”
The incident took place in April when Rep. Sayuri Uenishi was speaking on Japan’s declining population at a committee meeting. It didn’t receive attention at the time, but Ms. Uenishi brought it up this week after publicity about a separate case of sexist heckling in June at the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, when lawmaker Ayaka Shiomura was told to “hurry up and get married.”
We invite you to read the full article published on July 4th 2014.
A lawmaker in the Japan Restoration Party was jeered during a meeting at parliament and told by a male lawmaker she “should give birth to a baby.”
The incident took place in April when Rep. Sayuri Uenishi was speaking on Japan’s declining population at a committee meeting. It didn’t receive attention at the time, but Ms. Uenishi brought it up this week after publicity about a separate case of sexist heckling in June at the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, when lawmaker Ayaka Shiomura was told to “hurry up and get married.”
We invite you to read the full article published on July 4th 2014.