日本将增加女性领导人人数的努力推迟了十年

Japan will delay by up to a decade its target to raise the percentage of women in leadership posts to 30 percent – part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s campaign to empower women – after failing to hit the deadline this year, domestic media have reported.

据日本国内媒体报道，日本今年未能如期实现将女性担任领导职务的比例提高到30%的目标，这是日本首相安倍晋三(Shinzo Abe)旨在赋予女性权力的运动的一部分，但这一目标将推迟10年。

Abe’s policies to boost the role of women in the economy and politics, dubbed “womenomics,” is a pillar of his efforts to cope with Japan’s low birth rate and aging population.

安倍提升妇女在经济和政治中的作用的政策被称为“女性经济学”，是他应对日本低出生率和人口老龄化努力的一个支柱。

Japan’s global ranking on gender parity, however, fell to 121st out of 153 countries in a World Economic Forum report for 2020, the largest gap among advanced countries and down from 101st when Abe took office for a rare second time as prime minister in 2012.

然而，在世界经济论坛(World Economic Forum)发布的2020年报告中，日本的全球性别均等排名降至153个国家中的第121位，这是发达国家之间最大的差距，也低于安倍2012年罕见地第二次出任首相时的第101位。

Only 15 percent of senior and leadership posts are held by women, the report said. Abe’s 19-member cabinet has two female ministers and just shy of 10 percent of lawmakers in parliament’s powerful lower house are women.

报告说，只有15%的高级和领导职位由女性担任。安倍由19人组成的内阁有两名女部长，在议会权力强大的下议院，只有不到10%的议员是女性。

“Achieving the target during 2020 is impossible, realistically speaking,” the Mainichi newspaper quoted a government source as saying, without identifying the source.

《每日新闻》援引一名政府消息人士的话称:“从现实的角度来说，在2020年实现这一目标是不可能的。”该消息人士没有透露姓名。

The new target date will be postponed to “as early as possible by 2030” in a fresh five-year gender equality plan to be approved by Abe’s cabinet this year, the paper said on Friday.

该报纸周五称，在安倍内阁今年通过的一项新的性别平等五年计划中，新的目标日期将“最早推迟到2030年”。

“I think there is a lack of commitment by the government and this is the proof,” said Machiko Osawa, a specialist in labor economics at Tokyo Women’s University, commenting on the delay.

“我认为政府缺乏承诺，这就是证据，”东京女子大学(Tokyo Women 's University)劳动经济学专家大泽町子(Machiko Osawa)在评论这一推迟时说。

An official at the government’s Gender Equality Bureau said experts were currently discussing the new basic policy plan but she could not say when they would reach a conclusion.

政府性别平等局的一名官员表示，专家们目前正在讨论新的基本政策计划，但她无法透露何时才能得出结论。