Beate Gordon, Long-Unsung Heroine of Japanese Women’s Rights, Dies at 89

[ArchmageXin]

Beate Sirota Gordon, the daughter of Russian Jewish parents who at 22 almost single-handedly wrote women’s rights into the Constitution of modern Japan, and then kept silent about it for decades, only to become a feminist heroine there in recent years, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 89.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/wo...pagewanted=all

[KiraYamatoFan]

Japan sure needs more women like her and I hope one of them will emerge in the form of a Prime Minister soon.