LAWS MATTER
Women’s Rights and the Japanese Constitution:
Beate Sirota Gordon’s Legacy and its Implications Worldwide
UN Commission on the Status of Women — 65th Conference NGOCSW

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Beate Sirota Gordon, 22 year-old drafter of Article 24 on Women’s Rights in the Japanese Constitution

Monday, March 22, 2021 7:30 pm -8:45 pm Eastern Time (USA)
[Tuesday, March 23, 2021 830am- 945am Japan Time]

Speakers
Reiko Aoki, Former Visiting Researcher, NWEC (National Women’s Education
Center, Japan)
The Impact of Article 24 – Women’s Rights and Japanese Women Today

Professor Carol Gluck, Columbia University
Marriage Shall Be Based on Mutual Consent: Beate Sirota Gordon and the
Japanese Constitution

Dr. Elizabeth L. Hillman, President, Mills College
How the Law Matters to Women, Girls, and the Rest of Us

Nicole Gordon, Moderator, Distinguished Lecturer, Baruch College
(daughter of Beate Sirota Gordon)
Serendipity and Opportunity

Sponsors:
NWEC (National Women’s Education Center, Japan), Saitama, Japan
Mills College, Oakland, California

Beate Sirota Gordon’s story is recounted in her memoir The Only Woman in the Room

See NY Times article