The millenary Japanese culture has many positive aspects and others that are not so good, such as the roots of traditional gender roles that make women, at home, perform up to seven times more tasks than Japanese men.
To serve as an example, three Japanese politicians have become "pregnant" with some seven kilos weight vests, with which They aim to promote the equitable distribution of tasks and serve as an example for joint responsibility at home.
False pregnant bellies, vests with which for a while, they can physically feel a part of what a woman feels in a state of gestation.
Obviously it is incomplete, with these vests they will not suffer all the other symptoms that a pregnancy implies for the body of a woman but already It is a step to overcome gender roles that are deeply rooted in Japanese culture and society.
This time there have been three governors of the prefectures of the Southwest who have lent themselves to this campaign that seeks to encourage men to collaborate more in the home.
Away from equality
Only a few weeks ago we knew about the existence of paternity courses, developed by the Ikumen University of Tokyo, to facilitate the union between young people.
The figures of young virgins between 18 and 34 years old, are approaching 60% in Japan, a fact that worried the authorities and encouraged them to launch this type of courses with which they pretend that men learn basic baby care.
It is about acquiring basic knowledge that they can then put into practice when they have a partner and thus the full weight of the upbringing does not fall exclusively on women as it happens today.
In the first session of the course, among other activities, the participants placed a kind of jackets of around seven kilos.
With them, they tried to simulate the weight of a pregnancy and through this activity, it was intended that they put on the skin of the woman when she is in this state and has to perform the daily tasks of a house.
At the beginning of the year we also told you the story of Kensuke Miyazaki, a Japanese politician who openly declared his intention to request paternity leave, as provided by law in your country, When your son was born.
These statements generated a flood of widespread criticism in his country. And criticism even among his own party partners and that one of the priorities of the Japanese government remains that the number of parents who receive paternity leave in 2020 reaches at least 13%, a figure far removed from the current 2%.
Fighting against tradition in search of equality is what some Japanese politicians and universities claim with measures like these.
