High Ranking Women
Why aren't any women ranked above 6th Dan?
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There are women above 6th dan. Not many people above 6th. Here is one in Philly.
http://www.philadelphia-aikido.com/Site/About_Us_.html |
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Why aren't women paid as much as men for the same jobs? Why can't women get into corporate boardrooms and high political office? Sexism. Of the top of my head, I can think of several western female aikidoists, one in particular, who have have been training as long and contributed as much to the art as the men who are being promoted to 7th dan, and yet.....
Garth PS The question is applicable to aikikai aikido as far as I am aware. |
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There actually are a coulple 7th dan women in the States now. Check this thread:
http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15652 Also, Chiba sensei has about four women who are 6th dan shihan in his Birankai organization, and all of his highest ranking instructors are 6th dan, so that probably has more to do with how Chiba Shihan reccomends his higher ranking students for promotions than the fact that they are women. Although I do see your point though. Aikikai Hombu dojo for instance, has no women instructors that I know of. |
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In Aikikai I haven't found any single one. I am thinking there might be a small racist issue here. |
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and actually, mariko takamizo, shihan, 6th dan, is on the instructor staff at hombu |
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Jane Ozeki of the United States Aikido Federation was recently promoted to 7th dan. She's a woman and she's aikikai. Our federation also has quite a few female 6th dans. Check out the AikiWiki.
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Ummm...I thought I just posted.
Jane Ozeki of the United States Aikido Federation was recently promoted to 7th dan. Here's the AikiWiki link: http://www.aikiweb.com/wiki/Highrankingwomen |
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Thank you for the link. :)
There are ~3. Its like 30 to 1 :D |
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This is not an Aikido problem, but a societal one. Japan has a long-standing history of gender bias in their culture, although they are certainly not alone in this. And old habits die hard.
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Japan has a long-standing history of gender bias? Look in the mirror. Sexism is alive and well in every country I know.
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I won't say that sexism isn't happening in the promotion system, that will vary greatly dojo to dojo, but I'll also throw out there that men tend to be more interested than women in learning any martial art, aikido included (at least in my observation). I've been with a university club for almost 6 years now, and we just have more guys walk in the door.
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congratulations, sensei |
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Not that this takes away our own social responsibilities. P.S: I haven't met any high ranking women where I live, but I know that I have a shodan friend of mine that I like very much working with.It's like women take away the whole concept of overpowering you, which I find very interesting. Please excuse my english, by the way. I am starting to feel I am making to much mistakes to be understood. :freaky: Thanks, Antonis Paps. |
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No worries...I understood you just fine!
Much better than you would understand my Greek! :D Best, Ron |
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Better that they think I am a helpless young woman then a killer in disguise! Bwahahahahah!
Sorry had to be a bit silly there... I'll post a serious thought about this subject in a minute.. :-) |
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One of the instructors at our dojo is a 3rd Dan woman, and she's quite brutal at her techniques. Just as the other instructors.Or even more.
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Yes, the disparity is high at the higher levels, but it is starting to even out at 6th dan and below. I agree that by the nature of it being a martial art less women walk into in the dojo in the first place because of our cultural norms and gender expectations and biases. I think it would better to compare the percentage of the number women who are high ranking against the percentage of men who are high ranking. If you want to compare the number of women against the number of men who are high ranking (let's say 7th dan is high ranking). First I would separate out the different organizations because each organization has different promotion rules. Since Sensei Ozeki is part of the United States Aikido Federation (USAF), lets look at who's highest ranking there. The USAF only has 11 men who are 7th dans and one woman for a total of 12 7th dans. That's a ratio of 1:12 or ~8%. 5 of that 11 were promoted during Kagami Baranki celebration and Sensei Ozeki was a part of that group (1:5 or 20%). The other 6 were only promoted 3-5 years ago. So it's not like we've had 7th dans (other than our Japanse Shihan who started the Federation) for a long time and then all of a sudden a women gets promoted. It's that we haven't even had 7th dans for a long time and a woman is a part of a group getting promoted. (P.S. I can cook you a pretty good Spanikopita!) |
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I agree that there are very few 7th dans to begin with. We also have to think about how long it takes to become 7th dan. Most people are around 60 aren't they? They practice from their teens or twenties for 30-40 years right? unfortunately we will have to wait a bit longer for the numbers to even out. It will happen, it doesn't necessarily mean the promotion system is unfair, just society that makes it possible for people to devote their lives to aikido.
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Mariko Takamizo, shihan is a hombu instructor. i believe this is a female (I know there is one shihan female on staff). |
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whats the requirements for sixth dan and above?
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