Women in Japan Today

Susan J. Pharr served as an academic consultant for the Ford Foundation Task Force on Women, 1972–1974, and as a junior research fellow at the East Asian Institute, Columbia University, from July through October, 1974. In 1971–1972, she was a visiting foreign research scholar at Sophia University, at the Institute for Peace and Development in Asia, in Tokyo; in the spring of 1972, she was a guest lecturer at Waseda University in Tokyo. She is the author of “The Japanese Woman: Evolving Views of Life and Role,” in Lewis Austin and Hugh Patrick (eds.), Japan in the 1980’s (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975), and “The Status of Women in Japan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” in Janet Giele and Audrey Smock (eds.), Women Around the World, to be published in 1975 under the auspices of the Ford Foundation.