Shigeri Kaneko - Shigeri Kaneko

...Women's activist. Born in Mie Prefecture, she dropped out of Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School. She married the following year in 1919 and took the surname Kaneko (divorced in 1939). After the birth of her son in 1919, she worked as a reporter for the Kokumin Shimbun and Shufu no Tomo newspapers before turning her attention to women's issues. In 1924, she formed the Women's Suffrage Promotion Association with Ichikawa Fusae and others, and devoted herself to winning women's suffrage. She was also active in the women's city government cleanup movement and the maternity protection movement, and in 1942 she became a director of the Great Japan Women's Association. After World War II, she continued to work hard for the women's movement as the representative of the National Council of Widows' Organizations and the National Council of Regional Women's Organizations (Chifuren), and served as a member of the House of Councilors for nine years from 1952. ...

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…婦人運動家。三重県に生まれ，東京女子高等師範中退。翌1919年に結婚し金子姓となる(1939離婚)。19年息子の出生後から《国民新聞》《主婦之友》の記者を経て婦人問題にめざめ，24年市川房枝らと婦人参政権獲得期成同盟会を結成し，婦人参政権獲得に情熱を注いだ。婦人市政浄化運動，母性保護運動にも活躍し，42年大日本婦人会理事。第2次大戦後も全国未亡人団体協議会，全国地域婦人団体連絡協議会(地婦連)の代表として婦人運動に尽力し，52年から9年間参議院議員も務めた。…

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