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Japanese city apologizes after advising pregnant women to cook, clean and give husbands massages (www.cnn.com)

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There’s nothing a new mother likes more than being told how to please her husband – right?

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[–] dojan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Japan isn’t the most egalitarian country.

It’s a work in progress, but for example, groping and sexual harassment is common enough problem that there are gender segregated carriages on trains. Carriages for women only because men can’t behave.