APPC12WIP Japan, July 2013

Women in Physics seen in the Survey
on Research environment in JPS
Nojiri, Mihoko M.1,2, Itakura, Akiko N.1,3, Nonaka, Chihoko1,4, Sasao, Mamiko1,5
1The Physical Society of Japan, 2-31-22 , 2 High Energy Accelerator ResearchOrganization(KEK), 3 National Institute for Materials Science, 4 Hiroshima University,
5Doshisha University
The survey of the Physical Society of Japan (JPS) :In 2018, the Japan Physics Society (JPS) performed a survey of members on the research funding. The survey aims to check theworking environment, including funding, the FTE for research and educations, and their correlation of the University groups (NationalUniversity, National research institutions, private University)

Who responded the survery

Among ~16000 JPS members, 1515 answered the survey, including 416 professors and 496 associate professors.
Total women member JPS of 524 in the age group 30-60 in 2018, while the 96 women members answered thesurvey.
Who is Tenured?:The survey shows increasing burdens on research, education,management, and government policy to reduce the University's
regular funding. The fraction of untenured faculty increased
significantly for the younger generation. For example, 1/3 of therespondents at age around 40 are not tenured now. Fermale
untenured fraction is higher than male for all age group. (Fig 1.
.

Is this fair competition?:
We found women are spending more time on hose keeping works
while more than half of male spending less than 10% of working day
for house keeping works, pushing research, education andmanagement activity of female. (Fig.2 )Fig 1. fraction of untenured memer in genderWork and life Valance?
We also found extremely longworking hours. We show the figure
for the time excluding education,research, management and house
keeping work. (~ other activity
including sleeping.) Nearly 30% of
the responder considers it is lessthan 30% for working day. (Fig. 3)

Under Covid 19:

Obstacles/Problems in Working

JPS is a member of Japan Inter Society Liaison Associationfor
equal participation of Men and Women.(EPMEWSE).
The EPMEWSE conducted survey
during May 15 to June 13 on theeffect of Emergency Declaration
due to Covid 19. (Respondent Male7882 Female 3141. All STEM field)
The survey shows the burden towork from home is especially highfor female researchers. 30% offemale feel house

Fig 3 work and life balanceFig 2. unfair competition

16.6%

Childcare task increased
1.5%
3.1%

Nursing care task increased
Housekeeping task increased
Limi a ed o ibili

18.6%
12.4%
15.0%

of an fe in long di ance

25.5%

Inability to travel domestically and internationally
Coof neo k acce

and addi ional e

i men

21.6%
23.7%

fo

Preparing for online courses

Fig Fig.10.a
4 Under Covid
19Obstacles
by Gender

9.1%
11.8%

Others0.0%

MaleFemale

30.4%

62.5%
54.3%
49.5%
51.7%

35.0%70.0%• BothTokyo,
males
andThefemales
are severely
obstructed
the inabilitytravel.
The Japan Society of Applied Physics, 1-21-5 Nezu, Bunkyo-ku,
Japan,
Physical Societyof Japan, 2-31-22
Yushima,by
Bunkyo-ku,
Tokyo, toJapan• The burdens of housekeeping and childcare are chosen more often by females
than males.
Copyright@July 2020 EPMEWSE

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