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Japan’s ruling party invites women to meetings – but won’t let them speak

It was a move designed to show that Japan’s ruling party was committed to gender equality after the sexism row that forced one of its former prime ministers, Yoshiro Mori, to resign as head of Tokyo’s Olympic organizing committee. The time had come to give female members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) more prominence at key meetings, […]