Hong Kong (CNN)Just 10% of politicians in Japan’s House of Representatives are female, a gender imbalance that ranked the worst among G20 nations in new data released ahead of International Women’s Day.
Japan came 165th out of 193 countries listed in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) study. As of January 1, only 47 of Japan’s 463 lower house lawmakers were women — compared to a 24% global average and 19.6% average in Asia.
In Japan’s House of Councilors, or upper house, 50 of the 241 representatives –…
