He did not say if any women had been consulted in devising the plan. Earlier this month, Yoshiro Mori, 83, then the head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizing committee, resigned over comments he made demeaning women. AD“When I see Mori’s comments described as a gaffe, it makes me irate because it is not a gaffe. “This is an active policy of excluding women from positions that they are qualified to occupy and frankly would do a better job than men,” she added. ADReuters reported that earlier this week a group of Liberal Democratic Party female members asked Nikai to increase the representation of women in key party posts.

Source: Washington Post February 17, 2021 14:48 UTC