# 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 — 第六条 (Article 6) - 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（都道府県推進計画等） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-6 - 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. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六条（都道府県推進計画等） — (Prefectural Promotion Plans) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-6 **第一項** 都道府県は、基本方針を勘案して、当該都道府県の区域内における女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する施策についての計画（以下この条において「都道府県推進計画」という。）を定めるよう努めるものとする。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-6/par-1 Taking into consideration the basic policy, prefectures are to endeavor to establish plans with regard to measures for the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life within the relevant prefectural areas (hereinafter referred to as a "prefectural promotion plan" in this Article). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Taking into consideration the basic plan, prefectures are to endeavor to establish plans with regard to measures for the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life within the relevant prefectural areas (hereinafter referred to as a "prefectural promotion plan" in this Article)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb **第二項** 市町村は、基本方針（都道府県推進計画が定められているときは、基本方針及び都道府県推進計画）を勘案して、当該市町村の区域内における女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する施策についての計画（次項において「市町村推進計画」という。）を定めるよう努めるものとする。 art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-6/par-2 Taking into consideration the basic policy (when a prefectural promotion plan has been established, both the basic policy and the prefectural promotion plan), municipalities are to endeavor to establish plans with regard to measures for the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life within the relevant municipal areas (referred to as a "municipal promotion plan" in the following paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Taking into consideration the basic plan (when a prefectural promotion plan has been established, both the basic plan and the prefectural promotion plan), municipalities are to endeavor to establish plans with regard to measures for the promotion of women's active engagement in professional life within the relevant municipal areas (referred to as a "municipal promotion plan" in the following paragraph)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb **第三項** 都道府県又は市町村は、都道府県推進計画又は市町村推進計画を定め、又は変更したときは、遅滞なく、これを公表しなければならない。 art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-6/par-3 When a prefecture or a municipality has established or modified its prefectural promotion plan or its municipal promotion plan, the prefecture or municipality must publicize this without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-6/par-1: この条 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-6 - art-6/par-2: 次項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第六条第三項 (Article 6, paragraph (3)), art-6/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-6/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite 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 第六条第一項（都道府県推進計画等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-6/par-1 - 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第六条第二項（都道府県推進計画等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/womens-engagement-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-6/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life (女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律), Article 6, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), 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 (女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律), Article 6, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), retrieved 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