jmdict 1496670 Active (id#2101501)
婦人 [ichi1,news1,nf04]
【 ふじん [ichi1,news1,nf04] 】
  1. [n] [sens,dated]
    • woman
    • lady
    • adult female
    Cross references:
    • ⇔ see: 1364950 紳士 1. gentleman
History:
    • A 2021-04-30 20:57:05 Jim Breen
    • A* 2021-04-30 13:09:00 Nicolas Maia
    • Diff
      @@ -20 +20 @@
-<s_inf>now a bit dated</s_inf>
+<misc>&dated;</misc>
    • A 2014-05-09 05:59:52 Jim Breen
    • Comments
      OK.
    • Diff
      @@ -18,0 +19 @@
+<misc>&sens;</misc>
    • A* 2014-05-07 06:55:35 Marcus Richert
    • Comments
      yes, apologies, sounds like it should be tagged [sens].
    • A* 2014-05-07 03:56:23 Rene Malenfant
    • Comments
      i don't know, the 女性差別 makes me think that 'sens' might be appropriate.  calling a female police officer a 'lady cop' sounds a bit dated, but i wouldn't call it 女性差別, so i think that in certain circumstances (such as in front of job titles) 婦人 may be considered rather worse than that
    • Refs
      daijisen:
現在では「婦人」という語も女性差別を表す語であるとして、「女性」に言い換える傾向がある。東京都生活文化局の「婦人青少年部婦人計画課」は「女性青少年部女性計画課」と名称変更を行った。
meikyo makes the same note:
「女性」よりもやや古めかしい語。現在では女性を地位的・職業的に差別する語として使用を避ける傾向にある。
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here's an academic paper on the rise and fall of 婦人 (as used in terms like 婦人警官) in the asahi newspaper
http://www.lingua.tsukuba.ac.jp/ooyoo/kenkyukai_11/kenkyukaigenkou/kenkyukai(2011)zyo.pdf
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