Womansword là một cái nhìn sâu sắc từ tiếng Nhật liên quan đến phụ nữ và những gì họ tiết lộ về tình trạng của phụ nữ hiện đại Nhật Bản. Trong một tập hợp các bài tiểu luận ngắn, sống động | then as now were eager to pamper their daughters on that day. No amount of merrymaking however drives out concerns about the girls marriage prospects. In days gone by the holiday soup made from clams provided the pieces for a matrimonial shell game. The traditional Girls Day pastime of matching each half shell with its mate was a way of teaching girls to be faithful to their future husbands. Even now the dolls are whisked back into the closet immediately following the holiday. Superstition says that the longer the dolls remain out after March 3 the longer it will take lor the daughter of the house to land a husband. joshidaisei Coeds Japanese female university students joshidaisei major in fashion and fun according to the popular myths building up around these relatively new and unusual folks. With a few exceptions there were no such creatures enrolled in universities until coeducation became law in 1947. Before that the sexes were divided from middle school onward with boys flowing through universities while girls were diverted to women s normal schools. Joshidaisei is an abbreviation of the generic term for university student prefaced by a common word for young women joshi . It is applied to those who attend either the new all-women universities or the venerable institutions that are now coeducational. Creating an equivalent with the male prefix danshi simply provokes laughter with its redundancy. The women who entered these bastions of knowledge on the heels of the postwar education reforms were serious scholars. Then starting in the mid-1950s a university diploma began to be viewed as a passport to employment. Today s joshidaisei have made a hairpin turn many attend university to avoid or at least postpone taking a full-time job. Instead of burying themselves in books they have a reputation as airheads who further their education with ski trips sightseeing and designer fashions. These luxuries cost money which is said to be another mark of the joshidaisei. .
