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Originally Posted by Kirarakim
After all don't men & women still compete against each other at other times?
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Perhaps. But the main championships do segregate male and female players. Here's a bit from the Wiki page on
competitive karuta:
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The Japanese national championship tournament of competitive karuta is held every January at Omi Jingu (a Shinto Shrine) in Ōtsu, Shiga. Each winner of the men and women division are given the title as the Grand Champion - Meijin for males, and Queen for females. The national championship for high school students is held every July.
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I can't find anything else about this subject as it applies to karuta through a Google search. Indeed one of the four pages my search returned was this very one!
In
championship contract bridge, there are separate women's events, but women can also compete in open events and earn points that apply to both the womens' rankings and the overall world ranking of players. Mixed pair events have been a common feature of competitive bridge for
decades.
In
chess, there is again a separate women's division, but "[u]nlike most sports, women are able to compete against men in chess, and so some women do not compete for the women's title. Notably, the world's top rated female player for the past 20 years, Judit Polgár (and by far the highest FIDE-rated woman in chess history), has never competed for the women's title."
As for
shogi,
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As of 2012, there are two organizations for shogi professional players in Japan: Japan Shogi Association (abbr. JSA, founded in 1947) for men and women and its fork Ladies Professional Shogi-players' Association of Japan (abbr. LPSA, founded in 2007) for women. Both organize shogi tournaments for professionals. They may co-organize or affiliate amateur tournaments.
JSA has two ranks of professionals, professionals (棋士 kishi?) that are nominally sex-unlimited but de facto men-only, and women-only female professionals (女流棋士 Joryūkishi?). Sometimes professionals are addressed as seikishi (正棋士?), a word from the Go world for distinction from other player ranks. Professional ranks and female professional ranks at JSA are offset. In 2006, JSA admitted women to the ranks of professionals, not promoted from Shoreikai (奨励会?), leagues of aspirant professional players, but through an admission designed for female professionals. No female however has got professional status yet through this new admission system.
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So while gender segregation seems common in these types of competitions, the restrictions in Japan seem stricter than in Western games.