# 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 / Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — 第二条 (Article 2) - Law: 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 (Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life), 平成二十七年法律第六十四号 - English title "Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二条 (Article 2)（基本原則） — address `art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（基本原則） — (Fundamental Principles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-2 **第一項** 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進は、職業生活における活躍に係る男女間の格差の実情を踏まえ、自らの意思によって職業生活を営み、又は営もうとする女性に対する採用、教育訓練、昇進、職種及び雇用形態の変更その他の職業生活に関する機会の積極的な提供及びその活用を通じ、かつ、性別による固定的な役割分担等を反映した職場における慣行が女性の職業生活における活躍に対して及ぼす影響に配慮し、併せて、女性の健康上の特性に留意して、その個性と能力が十分に発揮できるようにすることを旨として、行われなければならない。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-2/par-1 The promotion of women's active engagement in professional life must be conducted for the purpose of enabling women to fully demonstrate their qualities and capabilities, taking into account the state of gender disparities regarding active engagement in professional life, through the active provision of employment opportunities, education and training, workplace promotion, different types of occupation, changes in employment, and other opportunities related to professional life; and the use of those opportunities for women who choose to or intend to work, and in consideration of the effects of workplace practices reflecting a stereotyped division of roles based on gender, etc. on women's active engagement in professional life, and also with attention to the health characteristics of women. machine translation, not official **第二項** 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進は、職業生活を営む女性が結婚、妊娠、出産、育児、介護その他の家庭生活に関する事由によりやむを得ず退職することが多いことその他の家庭生活に関する事由が職業生活に与える影響を踏まえ、家族を構成する男女が、男女の別を問わず、相互の協力と社会の支援の下に、育児、介護その他の家庭生活における活動について家族の一員としての役割を円滑に果たしつつ職業生活における活動を行うために必要な環境の整備等により、男女の職業生活と家庭生活との円滑かつ継続的な両立が可能となることを旨として、行われなければならない。 art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-2/par-2 In light of how the professional lives of many women are negatively affected through having to leave work due to marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, childcare, nursing care, and other reasons related to personal life, the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life must be conducted for the purpose of enabling a smooth and continuous balance between professional and personal life of men and women, by establishing a supportive environment for men and women with families, regardless of their gender, to allow them to carry out their household responsibilities such as childcare or nursing care for other family members, through mutual cooperation and with social support. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に当たっては、女性の職業生活と家庭生活との両立に関し、本人の意思が尊重されるべきものであることに留意されなければならない。 art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-2/par-3 When promoting women's active engagement in professional life, special attention must be paid to the importance of respecting the wishes of women concerning the balance between professional and personal life. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第三条第一項（国及び地方公共団体の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/427AC0000000064/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch womens-engagement-act-20261019T013854-001, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 201 — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19