The first year’s sessions focused on the impact of the pandemic on women, ways to address the societal inequities that the pandemic had revealed, and the need to amplify the voices of women in policymaking. [...] A total of 39 women won seats in the House of Representatives (Lower House) that year, represent- ing 8.4 percent of the seats.1 That actually exceeded the number of women in the US Congress at the time, which stood at 11 in the House and 0 in the Senate.2 But as of March 2024, that number in Japan had only grown to 48 women, or 10.3 percent of the 1. [...] These numbers place the United States at #70 and Japan at #166 on the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) ranking of women in national politics—they are the two lowest of the G7 countries, and Japan ranks lowest among all G20 countries.3 The importance of role models and mentorship The importance of role models and mentors is a theme that emerged in many contexts throughout the delegation’s visit, but. [...] Progress and ongoing impediments to women’s economic empowerment On a positive note, the post-pandemic economy in the United States led to record levels of labor force participation for women, which stood at 77.1 percent at the end of 2023 for women between the ages of 25 and 54 (although the rate falls to 57.1 percent for all women over the age of 16, as women over the age of 55 drop out of the e. [...] Other meetings touched on the need for the United States and Japan to do more internally as externally to ensure the well as externally to ensure the health of democratic governance in health of democratic the face of the rising populist and authoritarian threats around the governance in the face world, and particularly in light of the increasing collaboration that of the rising populist is seen b.
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