Dean, Kobe University Faculty of Human Developmentand Environment
Former Director of Gender Equality Office
Kaoru Hounoki

Brief History-Kobe University’s
Promotion of Gender Equality
 Feb 2007-Established Gender Equality Office Jul 2007-Started ReSTART! “Kobe Style” Female Researchers

Support Project May 2008-Introduced The part-time system for Full-time
researchers ’ plan
 Jul and Sep 2008-Formulated Gender Equality Declaration,
The “Kobe University Gender Equality Promotion Program(Master Plan)” , Positive Action
 Dec 2008-Done a program evaluation and call for regional
cooperation
 Mar 2010-Completed “Kobe Style” program Jul 2010-Adopted Revolution! Female Researcher Training“Kobe Style”

Researchers and Doctoral Course Students in
Natural Science Fields As of May 2008
Unit: person
1137

1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0

32.6%

371

335

285

272

5.1%

6.7%

1719

Professors

Associate
professors

All

20.5%

14.0%

1538

Assistantprofessors

Research
Assistants

73Female

Doctoralcoursestudents

“Program to Support Activities for Female Researchers”
from Ministry of Education, Culture , Sports, Science and Technology

 To encourage female researchers to fulfill theirpotential and improve academic environment andawareness-raising To support female researchers their work-life balance To establish “model” system for utilized at otherinstitution
 50 million yen for each institution

ReSTART!

“Kobe Style” Female
Researchers Support Project
Fiscal 2007-2009

Incubation System
Created for the systematic development of research skills

１Three promotion researchers are employed. （2007）


Employment of three person's by the Kobe University President Fund
Arrangement of study groups to catch up with the overall research power byOJT.
Arrangement of research assistant (10hours/week)
Adoption of the fixed-term teachers(1 person)

２ Construction of human resource bank for femaleresearchersIntroduction of employment by Kobe University support merger company(LLC )Giving recruitment information to part-time researchers in Kobe University
Introduction to research team by campus groupware

Mentor Lab
１ Career CaféFree talk with guests from inside and outside of Kobe University
Support for carrier making by presenting roll models

２ Mentor System

Individual consultation system by mentors: experienced, excellent
senior researchers
Mentor：Professors of active and professors emeritus who are 30-70years old
The content of the consultation: The work life balance, Going to thedoctor's course and designing their future, Preparation as a
researcher, and Adaptation to the graduate school life.

Introduced Role Models

Career Cafe

メンターMentor LabMentor Lab

Support female researchers Mentor Award for
Various types of mentors

Excellence2009

Presented role models in careerécafMentor program participants （％）
Youngresearchers,
15
Post-doctoral
15

Consaltation topics
Research topics
10Studens
70

work and life
balance30Life course
30

Futuer career30（％）

Career cafe
Hold 6 events since 2010
A meeting place for mentors
and mentees Improving Mentoring
Developed spontaneous networking
among female researchers innatural scienceSupport for Child-rearing Maleand Female Researchers
 A supporting research staff will be provided
 Set day-care center at April 2011
 Distributed a “Babysitter Childcare Support Project ”
discount coupons Part-time system for Full-time researchers
Allows researchers to reduce their work load while remaining a full-time employee.
Their salary will payback to their office funds

Support for Child-rearing Male andFemale Researchers Support staff willbe provided(6 to10 hours a week)
3 researchers
awarded in 2008
10 researchers
awarded in 200913 researchers
awarded in 2010

System Reform for thePromotion of Gender Equality

 Kobe University Gender Equality Declaration
 Positive Action

１．Give precedence to hiring women if an appraisal of theirqualifications are equal to those of men‘s
２．State in all application guidelines that “we welcome the active
application from women”
Goal: Increase the number of female researchers account for 20% at alldepartments

 The “Kobe University Gender Equality Promotion

Program (Master Plan)” has been composed The Gender Equality Promotion Committee

Regional Cooperation
 Public relations on the Incubation SystemHyogo Pref. and neighbor universities Public relations on the Career café
Hyogo-Prefectural Gender Equality Promotion
Center and neighbor universities Hyogo Research Woman Summit(2008)stimulated
promoting regional approach for gender equality
A university adopted the gender equality projectBackground Info for Female
Researchers Support Program Established Japan as a nation based on the creativity ofscience and technology
 Followed out International Convention on the Eliminationof All Forms of Discrimination against Women Internationally-compared low status of woman in Japan The low birthrate Gender equality movement of related academic societies
and organizations

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women(2009.8) concerned・・・(quoted)
 Equal pay for equal work and equal value , work-life balance Low rate of women in the Parliament, the Diet, local legislate,

the judiciary, academia, international affairs
Most female researchers in traditionally woman
dominated files and a low rate of female professors
 Women have mainly family responsibilities More women should be in decision-making process

Binding of International Convention on the Elimination ofAll Forms of Discrimination against Women stressed

“Female researcher Training System: Reform andAcceleration Program”
from Ministry of Education, Culture , Sports, Science and Technology

 To establish diverse academic environment, hire andtrain female researchers in male-dominated filesScience , Engineering and Agriculture To promote gender equality reforms system relatively
at the institution
 5 hundred million yen at fiscal 2009, 80 million yen
for one institution at fiscal 2010

Funds Awarded to…
 5 institutions at 2009
 Kyoto University, Hokkaido University, Tohoku University, Kyushu

University, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

 7 institutions at 2010
 Kobe University, Nagoya University, Chiba University, Hiroshima

University, University of Tokyo, Kumamoto University, Nara Women’sUniversity

Science and Technology Promotion Funding"Female researcher training system: reform and acceleration ”

Revolution!
Female Researcher Training“Kobe Style”
Kobe University

Revolution! Female Researcher Training “Kobe Style”

Kobe University
President belief
Strong Leadership
Structural reform of Kobe University

Approach by all departments

Revolution! Female Researcher Training “Kobe Style”

Current state
The number of female researchers

Science course …11Engineer course …9Agriculture course…421 people

Feb 1st, 2010

Total

are employed.

24/519

Revolution! Female Researcher Training “Kobe Style”

Female researcher
adoption planin the Graduate schools of Science,
Engineering and Agriculture
2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Total

3664221people

Revolution! Female Researcher Training “Kobe Style”

System for training of new female
researchers
Decision makingPresident

Office for Promoting of Gender Equality

Science Engineering System InformaticsAgriculture Maritime ScienceScience

Human Development and Environment

Revolution! Female Researcher Training “Kobe Style”

Features of “Kobe Style”
Ⅰone + one《 Incentive assistantprofessor》

ⅡNew female researcher is
promoted as a candidate for the"Female researcher employment
promotion" program.

adoption of an assistantprofessor (term in office 5years) for one new female
researcher employed by theProgram.

Ⅲ

Promotion researcher

University Expenditure
2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Total

35

111

191

248

268

853

（ Unit: One million yen ）Revolution! Female Researcher Training “Kobe Style”
Newly train female academics

Research Assistants for 5 year term

Concretemeasure forfemale
researcher
adoption

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Gender Equality
・By 2020, 30%
In every files, at least 30 % women in higher level
・In academia, 25% of women in natural science( 20% inScience, 15% in Engineering, 30% in Agriculture, 30 %in Health Science)
・Encouraging women who dropout from labor force restart their career・Promoting to put more women in male-dominatedfieldsStatus of Japanese Women GEM-57/109 countries and regions(2009) GII-12/138(2010)
 HDI-10/182(2009)
 GGGI-101/134(2009) Members of the Diet-19.0%(2010)92/186
・The rate of women in a management level・・assistantmanager 13.8%, manager 7.2%,
Director 4.9%(2009)
・30/35(CWDI)

Female Researcher Rate by Countries
Latvia51.5%

Russia42.1%

U.S.A

34.3%

Italy

29.9%

Norway29.4%

France

27.8%

U.K

26.0%

Germany

19.2%

Korea

13.1%

Japan

13.0%