Beate Sirota Gordon was the only woman in the room when Article 24 of the Constitution of Japan was negotiated in 1946. Guaranteeing equality before the law, it would become the defining pillar of women’s rights in modern Japan. Through a confluence of chance events, Beate, born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1923, found herself at the drafting table representing the American government at the young age of 22.
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