2024 Volume 60 Pages 27-38
Tadashi Fukutake, born in 1917 and died in 1989, is a well-known Japanese rural sociologist. This paper focuses on Fukutake, who contributed to creating a gender-equal society. Based on the accumulation of his sociological research up to that point, he insisted on changes in ideas and customs regarding gender roles to promote the creation of a gender-equal society as early as the 1980s, when he was appointed director general of the Social Development Research Institute（ a governmental institute for social security studies）. His efforts working with women leaders later enabled Japanese society to generate a lively debate on women's issues.
