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NEWS: Karen of Singing Duo ClariS to Leave Unit

She explained that she is leaving the unit to eventually realize another dream, namely to get married and raise a family.

I don't understand why she has to leave in order to get married. I've never heard anyone refer to them as "idols" are such.

Hurdle 2: Balancing Family Responsibilities with Work

The second hurdle to a woman’s career is usually returning to work after childbirth. Japan has female labor participation rates similar to comparable countries for women in their early twenties, but the rate drops off sharply for women in their late twenties and thirties, Japan’s so-called M-curve (Figure 6.10).

The unfortunate reality is that roughly 60 percent of Japanese women quit working after giving birth to their first child. This partly reflects women’s weaker attachment to the labor market due to the issues already discussed, including lower wages and fewer opportunities for career advancement, but it also reflects a weak support system for working mothers.

The male officials and others that implemented systematic discrimination at Tokyo Medical University have framed their actions as a “necessary evil.” The key reason cited as a defense for Tokyo Medical University’s decision to depress female admissions was their concern that too many female doctors would result in too few doctors at their affiliated hospitals when women left their work for marriage or childbirth. In his testimony to the legal team currently investigating Tokyo Medical University’s discriminatory admissions process, Usui said that the university systematically depressed female applicants’ scores because “as women get older, their activities as doctors decrease.”

This rhetoric echoed the sensationalistic “Coeds Ruin the Nation Theory” enunciated in the pages of the Japanese tabloids in the early 1960s. Then, Waseda University professor of literature Teruoka Yasutaka declared his desire to set quotas to limit the number of women admitted to humanities departments because women would waste their educations and ruin society. Now, male administrators at a number of medical universities secretly impose quotas fearing that too many women in the profession will ruin medicine.

Clara might as well go solo at this rate.

It's the traditional expectation in Japan - around 60% of J-women leave the workforce when they start a family

enurtsol wrote:

It's the traditional expectation in Japan - around 60% of J-women leave the workforce when they start a family

Are costs of living in Japan really low or something?
Here in the US, just affording housing basically requires a dual income.

A lot of people would prefer a partner to roommates, but that's multiple people contributing to rent either way.

Kougeru wrote:

I don't understand why she has to leave in order to get married. I've never heard anyone refer to them as "idols" are such.

It's the traditional expectation in Japan - around 60% of J-women leave the workforce when they start a family

In 2023, Japan's birth rate and death rate were as follows:

Birth rate: 727,277 births, which was a record low and a 43,482 decrease from 2022

Death rate: 1,575,936 deaths, which was a record high and a 6,886 increase from 2022