Ichiro Matsui, mayor of Osaka, Japan, said women take longer when they shop because they 'browse through different products and weigh out which option is best.'
TOKYO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 20, 2019: Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on February 20, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. Osaka hosts the G-20 Leaders' Summit in June and an"Osaka Declaration" is expected to be issued at the summit. A Japanese mayor said Friday that women take longer to shop for groceries than men do.
Ichiro Matsui, the mayor of Osaka, was asked by a male reporter during a press briefing about the possibility of reducing the number of shoppers at supermarkets in order to lower the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus, according to a report by Reuters. "When a woman goes...it will take time. If it was you, if you were told to get this or that, then you would go directly... and go home," Matsui said to the male reporter.
According to a report by CNN, Matsui further elaborated on these comments:"Women take a longer time grocery shopping because they browse through different products and weigh out which option is best. Men quickly grab what they're told to buy so they won't linger at the supermarket. That avoids close contact with others."
Matsui also suggested a measure that would assign a day for shopping to residents based on their birth month. Those born on odd-numbered months would be assigned different days than those born on even-numbered months, according to a report by Kyodo News, a Tokyo based news agency. The mayor said this would prevent congestion in supermarkets.
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