Women's Association - Fujinkai

An organization whose members are women and has a certain purpose. From the Meiji period until the 1970s, they were often called women's associations (or women's organizations), but since the International Women's Year (1975), the outdated image of the word "women" has come to be disliked and the term "women's organizations" has taken root.

[Toshie Kanamori, Editorial Department]

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女性を構成員とし一定の目的をもつ組織。明治以降1970年代まで婦人会（あるいは婦人団体）とよばれることが多かったが、国際婦人年（1975）以降は「婦人」ということばの古いイメージが嫌われ「女性団体」という名称が定着している。

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