Sixty-one percent of Japanese surveyed recently say that Japanese men are unreliable, and a growing number say that the traditional division of roles between men and women should be changed.
The same survey, recently conducted by the Asahi Shimbun, a mass-circulation daily newspaper, found that the results were the opposite when it came to views about women-60 percent view them as reliable and 26 percent think they are unreliable.
Asked what they think about the idea that a woman`s place is in the home doing domestic chores and that men should be the bread earners, 55 percent agreed and 37 percent disagreed. By contrast, 72 percent agreed with such a traditional view in the 1980 survey and 20 percent disagreed.
Despite changing views on the role of men and women in society, 61 percent of the respondents still view Japanese society as a man`s world.
In such a society, however, an increasing number of people say they welcome a change. Seventy-one percent said it is good that more women are gaining corporate management positions, up 10 percentage points from 1980.
