After Becoming a Single Mother (Translated Documentary)
by J
About This Novel
Divorced and unmarried women are not protected, and only the wives in the family are recognized by them; the underlying reasons revealed concern all unmarried, married and divorced women. Women's poverty is a structural problem. In 1985, Japan promulgated and implemented the Equal Employment Opportunities Law for Men and Women. This law, which was intended to achieve equality between men and women, woven female poverty into a tight structure. On the one hand, it advertises equality in employment between men and women; on the other hand, it divides family responsibilities, strengthens gender division of labor, expands informal employment, and gives economic preferential treatment to wives while reducing subsidies for mother-child families. On the surface, social policies that favor women actually divide women into women who are wives and women who are not wives. Japan's policies do not leave room for "women who do not rely on men for support". This is the main culprit of the poverty of single mothers and single women. For women, 1985 was precisely the "first year of poverty."
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