Download or read book A Path Toward Gender Equality written by Yoshie Kobayashi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, this volume focuses on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While state feminism theory possesses a strong capability to examine state-society relationships in terms of feminist policymaking, it tends to neglect a state's