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Guest Speaker : Mr. Davis iBritish Council)

The speaker introduced social equality of men and women in Scotland.
Instantly listeners recognized the differences in gender equalities in Scotland and Japan. Listeners introduced examples how the current Japanese society is sexually unequal starting with an OL tea-server to educational carrier, job opportunities, salaries, promotion, and responsibility in any social institutions. The speaker seemed to have been informed many of such cases before hand, on the other hand, he seemed to find new surprise at the forum. However, the more listeners discuss the more they became pessimistic on changing this monstrous social inertia. Some of male listeners seemed to have accepted the current situation, and many female listeners have been complaining about how men treat women at work place, but they have seem not to have had even one experience of taking actual action on it.

Discussion went onto then how we can drive the current sexually unequal society to better one.
The speaker's suggestion was that if one group is socially discriminated in a society then it must be they who stand up for their own rights, not the discriminating side. How to stand up for what they believe in ? Be a candidate, be a lawmaker! Anybody who find cases that are against social gender equality, file a law suit case. It is laws that imposed us to behave democratic, not traditional common sense.

The discussion was closed with another suggestion by the speaker of "economic sense" as a driving factor that change this society. Namely, if a Japanese office lady is content with her salary as a tea-server, then the company manager is not going to pay as much as her contemporary male office worker no matter how wrong the ideology is. If she does not like it, it is she who show what she can do better than other male candidates.