APPC12WIP Japan, July 2013

Recent Activities of Gender Equality Promotionin the Physical Society of Japan
Koji Hukushima2, Mihoko Nojiri3 , Hatsuka Mori2, Yutaka Shikano2, TakamiTohyama 4
1 The Physical Society of Japan, 2 The Univ. of Tokyo, 3IPNS KEK, 4Tokyo
University of Science Website of Gender Equality Promotion Committee of JPS :http://k2.sci.u-toyama.ac.jp/triangle//

The recent activities of gender equality promotion in the Physical Societyof Japan (JPS) are introduced. The gender equality promotion committee inJPS was established in 2002 after joining IUPAP2002-WIP in Paris.

Women in Physics in Japan. :women fraction at the year accepted %表1

The percentage ofwomen members in JPS increases graduallyfrom 2.1 %入会年度？(以後５年間）女性入会数 男性入会数 女性現会員 男性現会員
入会時女性比率%現在の女性比率(in 1985) to 5.8 % (2014),
total
numberof1068
JPS members
is1980 although72236926
2.94961
2.3766almost(!?) constant during1981
these 7-8
however,from 30 %,72 years.
2464 It is,241083 far 2.83912
2.16802722707 fields 211180
2.59086
1.74854
the goal in 2020 in science1982
and engineeringin Japan.
1983

8629162912152.86476

2002

610

5936

100

1367

9.31867

6.81663

2003

649

6310

102

1395

9.32605

6.81363

2004

659

6484

113

1405

9.22582

7.44401

How to improve :◆Collaborating with the2005other668associationsin scienceand6695
117
1475
9.07239
engineering ：JPS, JSAP,2006JCS, 697
and academic
societies
have
6953
130
1529
9.11111established EPMEWSE on2007
July 19thNow,
than 82711 in 2002.
6957
136 more
1546
9.2723
2008
705 mathematics,
6942
154 electronics
1608
9.2193academic societies covering
physics,
and712 engineering,
7032
158life science1802
9.19421information, chemistry and2009
materialsand2010
739
6969
193
9.58744
biology, civil engineering, mechanicalengineering
andso on1990
join this2011
791
6899
248
2402
10.2861
association. *EPMEWSE :the Japan Inter-Society Liaison Association Committee for
Promoting Equal Participation of Men and Women in Science and Engineering)◆EPMEWSE carried out large-scale surveys (more than 20,000
scientists and engineers, four times in 2003-2016) on genderequality. From the survey, academic societies in EPMEWSE submit
recommendations to the government, which give a birth of new
government projects: “Supporting Activities for Female
Researchers”, “Supporting Positive Activities for Female
Researchers”, .and “RPD (Restart Postdoctoral Fellowship)”.

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camps fosummer
rls
Photos of and high-school gi
hjunior-higd 2015
in 2014 an

8.25

2.33119

JSP has record of members
since1920’s,
includingthosewholeft JPS
1984
10231993212963.08997
2.40964
later. The database has1985
informationof the genderof the3.15155
members,
115
3534
3813562.72597
therefore, we can track 1986
when they
JPS, andis 3.90981
any gender
163 left4006
53 if there1471
3.477691987
198 more
4417than 1000
6315274.29036
3.96226
difference. The statistics,
is large;
becomenewmembers
1988 of them
240
4851
65
1624 10 years.
4.7142
3.84843
each year, and rougly 80%
leave JPS
after
The
289
73
1682
5.22509
4.15954
difference between men1989
and women
in5242the ratioof remaining
the JPS
1990
326
5644
80
1745
5.460644.38356
therefor should be regarded
as 365the measureof73genderinequality
in the1991
6038
1785
5.700453.92896
field of Physics research.1992
433
6303
8517986.42815
4.51407497
6508
94
7.094935.03212The data shows the rate1993
that womenremainingas JPS1774
memberis rougly
523
6652
96
1731
7.28925.25452
80% less than men. Ratio1994
of the womenat the entry
level
are around
10%
1995
572
6657
96
1666
7.91257
5.44835
for last 15 years(far less than 30% goal in 2020 that is set by Japanese
1996
582
6456
101
1532
8.269396.18494
government) the ratio becomes
even
less
at 1092 years1400
after 7.90369
PhD. The
1997
581
6770
6.16622
difference between men andafter8.06339
2~4 years
1998 wemen
575 ratio
6556becomes
95 larger
1348
6.5835187
8.50789
6.23656
from PhD, suggesting “life1999events”593might6377
be the partof1308
reasons.
However,
2000 10 years
599
6285 the men
94
6.91685
there is some improvements,ago,
and 1265
women8.70134
difference
2001
595
6273
96
1294
8.663376.90647
evolves less quickly.

%“Leaky pipeline” seen among JPS members

Fraction of women when
they ﬁrst join JPS

Expanding diﬀerence

woman fraction by the2.75

year they join JSP01980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010
~1984 ~1987~1990~1993 ~1996 ~1999~2002 ~2005~2009~2011 ~2014

Year they join JPS
women at602017
men at 2017
55

8000

6000

4000

8.08561

2000◆8.84104
Entry level
9.35849

Less chance to be tenured.
after getting PhD

8.740078.06122gap

5.5

7.34925
7.83605

the fraction at 2017

5 year average of women fraction by the year accepted11

woman acceptedmen

man accepted

number of members by the year accepted (5 year sum)50
at 200745
at 2012
fraction remain as JPS member(%)

Relevance of JPS :4035302520

women
man accepted
at 20171510501980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010

man startingat 2017 from (5 year sum)
accepted year

2017年度、2012 年度での入会年度、男女別在籍者比率（５年移動平均）

woman accepted
Every year, the spring andsummer始まるように変わった。
camps for junior-high andhigh-school girls
are held in Kansai area and Saitama prefecture.
0More than 100 school girls, who applied voluntary, enjoyed thefrontier of science. Our committee members participated in all ofthese camps, as organizers, presenters of experiments and posters
for possible career paths and a special subject of physics. We
believe that these activities are highly effective to promotescientific interests of young school girls.
大学院卒2年目からはじまっていた女性会員の過剰な減少が５年目くらいから◆Annual meetings
JSPS meetings has childcare for the participants since 2001. Oneof the earliest among the academic societies in Jaon. it is adopting
children 600 yen/ hours and the rest of the costs are covered byJSPS. We also organize a half-day symposium on the promotion
gender equality in physics. We paln to have lunch time freindship
meeting discussing on diversity issues in Annual meeting in 2018.
◆JPS and JSAP (the Japan Society of Applied Physics) organized
the 3rd AAPPS (Association of Asian Pacific Physical Societies)
workshop on “Women in Physics” in APPC12 (12th Asia PacificPhysics Conference, in Japan) in 2013. The main subject“affirmative action and networking” was introduced and discussed
by 55 participants representing nine countries and territories.
Currently we are working
together to host GS10(Tokyo, May25-26, 2017) working on Parallel session 2 “Promotion of Gender
Equality by Improving Access and Use of Researcher Database”.