Japan's First Female PM Promised More Women in Her Cabinet. She Picked Two.

Takaichi Leans Conservative with Key Young Appointments, Limits Women to 2 Cabinet Positions

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi leaned conservative with her Cabinet appointments, choosing mid-career and young conservative lawmakers while limiting female representation to just two ministers.

Japan's Sanae Takaichi makes history but will it change things for Japanese women?

Sanae Takaichi took office on Tuesday as Japan's first female prime minister but on the same day she appointed only two female ministers in a 19-member cabinet.

Japan's first female PM promised more women in her Cabinet. She picked two.

Takaichi appointed just two women to her 18-member Cabinet on Tuesday, despite promising high levels of female representation earlier.

Japan's Takaichi makes history, but women ask: what changes now?

TOKYO: Sanae Takaichi took office on Tuesday (Oct 21) as Japan's first female prime minister, but her surprisingly male-dominated cabinet and socially conservative track record have left some women ambivalent in a country that lags on gender equality.

Japan’s Takaichi makes history, but women ask: what changes now?

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Sanae Takaichi took office on Tuesday as Japan’s first female prime minister, but her surprisingly male-dominated cabinet and socially conservative track record have left some women ambivalent in a country that lags on gender equality. Takaichi on Tuesday appointed only two female ministers in a 19-member cabinet, matching her predecessor and falling short of her previously announced plan to ensure women’s repr…