Beate Gordon, Long-Unsung Heroine of Japanese Women’s Rights, Dies at 89 (Published 2013)Beate Gordon, Long-Unsung Heroine of Japanese Women’s Rights, Dies at 89 Beate Sirota Gordon, the daughter of Russian Jewish parents who at 22 almost single-handedly wrote women’s rights into the Constitution of modern Japan, and then kept silent about it for decades, only to become a feminist heroine there in recent years, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 89. The cause was pancrea
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