Joint 13th Asia Pacific Physics Conference
and 22nd Australian Institute of Physics Congress(APPC-AIP Congress 2016), December 6, 2016, Brisbane

JSAP’s Activities
for Promotion of"Women in Physics"
Nahoko Kasai1,3 and Atsushi Masuda2,3
1NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan
2National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology, Tsukuba, Japan
3Gender Equality Committee, The Japan Society of Applied
Physics, Tokyo, Japan

Gender Equality Committee of theJapan Society of Applied Physics
HistoryMar. 2001

Established Preparatory Committee for
Gender Equality NetworkJul. 2001

Established Gender Equality CommitteeMar. 2006

Renamed as Human Resources
Development/Gender Equality CommitteeMar. 2011

Unified to Human Resources
Development/Educational Project Committee

Feb. 2012

Renamed as Human Resources DevelopmentCommittee

Apr. 2015

Reorganized as Gender Equality Committee

Gender Equality Committee of theJapan Society of Applied Physics
Members in 2016
Chairperson: Atsushi Masuda (AIST)
Vice-chairperson: Nahoko Kasai (NTT)
15 members (8 women), 7 advisors

Gender Equality Committee of theJapan Society of Applied Physics
Objectives
Our major objective is the advancement of science andtechnology by promoting greater equality of genderparticipation based on the specialty of each person
regardless of age or sex. One of the unique aspects of thiscommittee is that we are not only encouraging theprovision of more and better opportunities for women but
we are also keen to shed light on the importance of theactive participation of both men and women to realize theirfull potential on equal terms. We hope to help energize
Japan Society of Applied Physics through our work and soachieve social activation.

Main Activities to Promote Gender Equality
Established "NEWMAP", NEtwork ofWomen and Men in Applied Physics"NEWMAP" was established in 2016, renamed from "GirlsMeeting". The NEWMAP aims to provide opportunity formeeting and networking within JSAP members for both
female and male, and for both young and seniorresearchers. The NEWMAP social party was held both in
the spring and the autumn JSAP meetings in 2016.
NEWMAP becomes one of the organizations recognized inJSAP.

Main Activities to Promote Gender Equality
Opinion Exchanges in Committee
During the committee meeting, members devote time toexchange opinions in different gender issues to improve
gender equality especially for the environment of JSAP
members. Topics are extended in the wide ranges such as
how to improve work-life-balance both for female and maleresearchers and how to evaluate researchers.

Main Activities to Promote Gender Equality
Publishing Articles inMonthly Membership Journals
To inform our activities to JSAP
members, column articles will bepublished in the monthly membership
journal, "OYO BUTURI", 4 times a year.
The first article will be published inJanuary 2017 which will be about thehistory of the committee.

Main Activities to Promote Gender Equality
Symposia
A symposium on human resources development andgender equality was established in 2002 at the annual
spring and fall meetings of the JSAP.
We held symposium with speakers ofwomen researchers in the spring
meeting every year since 2013.
The theme was photovoltaics(2013), photonics (2014),
bioelectronics (2015), andplasma technology (2016). All
the symposia were successful
andnumberof
total
participants were over 500.

Main Activities to Promote Gender Equality
Providing Nurseries
during Annual Meetings
A day care nursery for the spring and fall annual meetings
became available from 2005. It has had well over 100
users until now.

Main Activities to Promote Gender Equality
Promoting Science toFemale Junior/High School Students
To support the physical science course choiceof female students in secondary schools, since2008 we have cosponsored an interchange
gathering with girl students and scientists,
engineers, university students and graduate
students in physical science, named "A summer
school for girl junior and senior high school
students up to incipient scientists/engineers" asa place for conveying the charm of the physicalsciences. This meeting is a place for interchanges between
more than 100 girls as well as parents and teachers throughcareer lectures, scientific experiments called "scienceadventures", and poster sessions.

Main Activities to Promote Gender Equality
Launched Website"Women in Physical Science"
and Published Booklet "Career Design inApplied Physics ~ Role Models"Based on the thought that it would be effective tointroduce positive images about the future of the woman
young researchers and encourage them, the web page
"Women in Physical Science" was established on theJSAP web site to introduce a role model for women
researchers. In addition, we assembled a collection of rolemodels consisting of male and female researchers in theapplied physics field, and introduced their career plans inthe booklet.

Main Activities to Promote Gender Equality
AwardsThe Kodate Prize (a prize for female
researcher achievements and humanresources development) was establishedin 2009 to support female researchersand engineers.
Prize (A) is awarded to a female
researcher who contributes to researchin applied physics. Prize (B) is awarded
to a researcher (man or woman) torecognize work in supporting equal
participation.

Main Activities to Promote Gender Equality
Participation in Global Networking Events
We gave oral and poster presentations at IUPAP-WIP in2008 (Korea) and 2014 (Canada), and at ASEPS in 2010
(Japan). In 2013, JPS and JSAP organized WIP ofAPPC12 (The 12th Asia Pacific Physics Conference ofAAPPS) in Japan. We also took part in Gender Summit 8in 2015 (Korea) and will take part in Gender Summit 10 in2016 (Japan).

Conclusions
・ Gender Equality Committee of the Japan Society ofApplied Physics (JSAP) was established in 2001.
・The major objective is the advancement of science andtechnology by promoting greater equality of genderparticipation.
・The main activities for gender equality by JSAP are thefollowings:1) Networking within JSAP
2) Opinion exchanges for different gender issues
3) Preparing column articles in the monthly membership journal4) Holding symposia in JSAP meetings
5) Providing nurseries during JSAP meetings
6) Promoting science to female junior/high school students
7) Opening webpages for introducing positive images about the futureof the woman young researchers8) Awarding Kodate Prize to support female researchers and engineers
9) Participation in global networking events