Fuyu No Tsubomi Beate Shirota to Josei No Kenri (Iwanami Gendai Bunko Bungei 328)

[Machine Translation] Imagine a time when the house and family were valued more than the individual. Imagine a time when the house and family were valued more than the individual, women always obeyed men, and women did not have the right to vote. With the defeat of the war, women in Japan, who were in such a winter period, were given a "bud" in the form of a gender equality clause in the Constitution. Why did Beate Sirota draft the Equality Clause? We trace her life and the process of drafting the Constitution.

想像してみてください。個人よりも家や家族が重んじられ、女性はつねに男性に従い、選挙権もなかった時代を。敗戦によって、そうした冬の時代にあった日本の女性に、憲法の男女平等条項という「蕾」がもたらされました。ベアテ・シロタは、なぜ男女平等条項を起草したのでしょうか。彼女の人生と憲法制定過程を辿ります。