Source: https://world.time.com/2013/08/09/handbags-and-champagne-japans-young-forex-divas-make-their-mark/
Why Japanese Women Are Flocking to Foreign-Exchange Trading
Handbags and Champagne: Japan’s Young Forex Divas Make Their Mark
By Anjani Trivedi
Mrs. Watanabe is back.
Housewife investors were a feature of the Japanese financial landscape during the prolonged recession of
the 1990s. Marooned at home because of the lack of career opportunities in a male-dominated business world, lacking child-care support and penalized by a tax system that didn’t encourage their participation in the labor [sic] force, many Japanese women found that they could bolster tight budgets by performing online forex trades in between chores and shopping for groceries. They became such a force that the market gave them a name, Mrs. Watanabe.
Watanabe is a common surname, the equivalent of Garcia, Jones or Wang). And now they have returned, only this
time they’re younger and more aggressive. Perhaps Ms. Watanabe would be a more accurate title now.