黑料传送门

This book is based on classes such as “Gender and Media” and “Education and Society” that I have taught as a part-time lecturer at other universities. This book can be easily read by people regardless of their field of expertise. I would like to recommend this book to anyone who thinks, “In the 2020s, gender equality is already here, right?”

Adult bias gradually creeps into children from the time they are babies, starting with gifts received at birth: toys offered at nursery schools and kindergartens; the behavior of parents at home and teachers at school; and the various media we encounter in our daily lives, such as commercials, picture books, and cartoons, all contribute to gender bias among adults.

While introducing the results of studies in the sociology of education and other fields, I will also interweave comments on my experiences while raising my own children and the real-life experiences of university students to explain what kind of gender bias remains in various contexts, what kind of harm it causes, and how we can work to reduce it.

黑料传送门 is known for its 4:1 male-to-female ratio, and the Office for Gender in the Office of the Center for Coproduction of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (IncluDE), to which I belong, has been conducting a “#headwind” campaign to raise awareness of the issue. Although the views expressed in this book are not representative of the organization, I also refer to this campaign and discuss why the University of Tokyo has so few female applicants. In addition, I discuss “women’s quotas” at other universities.

In fact, many University of Tokyo members, even women, have only rarely received negative calls regarding gender bias. I myself have made comments such as “As expected, I don’t think any of today’s university students have been told this.”

However, even now, in the 2020s, a deep-seated bias can be observed. I hope that you will use your imagination regarding the effects of the biases you have been able to escape while looking at the comments of college students in this book and others.

I would also like you, as university students, to reflect on whether you are contributing to existing structures of gender inequality when you start working, not only as people who work directly with children or become parents, but also as individuals who create all kinds of products, services, content, policies, and so on. I hope that you will use this as a reference to look back and see whether you are contributing to the existing structures of gender inequality.
 

(Written by NAKANO Madoka, Associate Professor, Center for Coproduction of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity / 2025)