Women generally wear skirts or dresses instead of long pants or trousers. Although modern day Japanese women basically wear the same as westerners for everyday clothing. However, Japanese women don’t dress as casual as Americans, and tend to wear fewer bright colours. Japanese women in modern society do wear western style, but they also wear kimonos to their ocha (Japanese Tea Ceremony) class once a week. In the earlier japanese periods, women were forced to marry a man she didn’t love, and work for him, for the rest of his life, but not in modern Japan now. This is probably because more women have the freedom now to marry who they want, and who they don’t want to be with. About one in three Japanese marriages end in divorce, four times the rate in the 1950’s and double the rate in 1970’s. The divorce rate in Japan is less than the US, but is growing. The divorce rate is one-quarter that of the United States. Less than 3 percent of Japanese remain unmarried, however the age of marriage is increasing for both men and women, from late twenties on wards. This is where, when two people fall in love they can get married - not who they are forced to be with. Love marriage, which is okay in todays society, is the more preferred choice of marriage. This is usually followed by further meetings and ends with an elaborate and expensive wedding ceremony. Arranged marriage is the result of formal negotiations involving a mediator who is not a family member, coming together between the respective families, including the bride and groom for a meeting. Today, marriage can either be ‘arranged’ or a ‘love’ match. In 2004, 54% of Japanese women in their 20’s were still single, while only 30.6% were single in 1985.

Developments often viewed this as a rebellion against the traditional confines of women’s restrictive roles as wives and mothers. However, a growing number of women are choosing to stay unmarried in Japan today. So, not really an extremely young age like before modern day.

In modern day, the average age to marry is 27. The school year consists of two or three terms, which are separated by short holidays in spring and winter and a six week long summer break. The length of the school year, for both male and female is around 198 days long. In modern Japan, the school year starts in April, and classes are held from Monday to Friday or Saturday, depending on the school. Women, now know just as much as men as they get older, and are equally as wise. Girls are also allowed to try boy’s sports in school too - Judo is popular in both genders. Students in Japan also learn traditional Japanese arts like shodo (calligraphy) and haiku (form of poetry). Both genders have the right to learn, and all students are taught subjects like Japanese, Mathematics, science, social studies, music, crafts, physical education and home economics.

Now, boys and girls in the 20th century get equal education. 37% of women have received education beyond upper-secondary school, compared with 43% of men, but most have received their post secondary education in junior colleges and technical schools rather than in universities and graduate schools. However, women’s educational opportunities have increased in the 20th century. Many women in Japan dedicate themselves to their children, and prefer to stay at home doing household tasks, at least, while their children are still young. Many Japanese beliefs still influence females about what their roles in life are.

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