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The Heroine of Japanese Women's Rights

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Jan 09, 2013
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Years before the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution flared and fizzled, Americans wrote an ERA (actually an article) into Japan's post-war constitution. To be more accurate, a young woman, Beate Sirota Gordon, wrote the language of Article 24. which guarantees equal rights for women.

Gordon died over New Year's at age 89, the last surviving me…

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