Relevance Suicide amongst women in Japan is on the rise since a decline of twelve years. However, suicide amongst men has stayed fairly stable. The pandemic has caused many issues to emerge and...Show moreRelevance Suicide amongst women in Japan is on the rise since a decline of twelve years. However, suicide amongst men has stayed fairly stable. The pandemic has caused many issues to emerge and enlarge. It may help to start and understand more about this increase when looking from a societal point of view. Objective To see what the troubles seem to be for women who think about committing suicide from a sociological point of view and if we can find and back up the reasons that make people more at risk of committing suicide. Methodology The statement of mental health, domestic violence and unemployment being the main drivers of increase in suicide, written in White Paper Reiwa 3, is our first building block. We will use the writings/works from sociologists and anthropologist, to build a framework around femininities and masculinities in Japan. Followed by recent data on suicide as well as writings and data on mental health, domestic violence and unemployment in Japan and more specifically amongst women. We will continue with looking at various casestudies that help to sketch a picture of the situation. Results and Discussion In our case studies we mostly found that loneliness was a big factor. However, it was interesting to see that work was a common denominator in many of the casestudies. Loneliness seemed to be a symptom. In many of the other cases it was economic stress, contradictory to earlier done research mostly applying economic distress as a predominantly male reason. Also societal pressures of what a women needs to accomplish and family obligations came to the forefront. However-so entertained with them also wanting to work. This thesis only sums up a very small amount of reasons and sheds light on just a fraction of everything that has to do with suicide. Other stories that came to the forefront when doing the research for this thesis were bullying in high schools and cyber bullying. With the last also pertaining a few celebrities that took their own lives in the past years. Conclusion It seems that economic distress for women has risen. Additively more women have jobs and because of the pandemic and relatively more women feeling the consequences of that pandemic, more women commit suicide. Because of Japans’ social history more women are being laid off.Show less
