IUPAP2014WIP Canada, Aug. 6-8 2014

History and Recent Activities of Gender Equality Promotion
Related to the Physical Society of Japan (JPS)
aabcdH. Mori , A. Ejiri , K. Kaki , S. Tajima , E. Torikai , andeM. Sasao
The Physical Society of Japan, Tokyo 113-0034, Japan
aThe Univ. of Tokyo, bShizuoka Univ. , cOsaka Univ., dYamanashi Univ., eDoshisya Univ.

The GEPC in JPS aims at(1) Discussing the significance of gender equality promotion and taking actions for theachievement,(2) Developing the next generation human resources in science including female
scientists,(3) Surveys and improvement of the environment for men and women in science.

i. The number offemale physicists in Japan
The percentage of women
members in JPS increases
gradually from 2 % (in 1985) to5.5 % (2011) and 5.7 (2013),
although total number of JPS are
constant during these 7-8 years. It
is, however, far from 30 %, thegoal in 2020 in science andengineering fields in Japan.

cf. ratio of women inacademic position(data from the survey in 2012)
Effects of recent positive actions
significantly appear in Engineeringand Agriculture region while lathernegative results are seen inScience region.
P: professor
AP: associate professor
L: lecturerii. Collaborating with the otherassociations in science andengineering
JPS, JSAP, JCS, and academic societies have establishedEPMEWSE (the Japan Inter-Society Liaison Association
Committee for Promoting Equal Participation of Men and Womenin Science and Engineering) on July 19 in 2002. In 2014, more than84 academic societies covering physics, mathematics, electronics andinformation, chemistry and materials engineering, life science andbiology, civil engineering, mechanical engineering and so on join thisassociation. This EPMEWSE carried out the 1st (2003), 2nd (2007),and 3rd (2012) large-scale surveys (more than 20,000 scientists andengineers) on gender equality. Based upon the analyses of largescale surveys, academic societies in EPMEWSE submit
recommendations to the government, which give a birth of newgovernment projects: “Supporting Activities for Female Researchers”,“Supporting Positive Activities for Female Researchers”, .and “RPD(Restart Postdoctoral Fellowship)”.

iii. InternationalCollaboration
The topical session on Women in Physics (WIP) at
APPC12 (Asia Pacific Physics Conference) was
held on July 18, 2013 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba,Japan, as a joint meeting of the 3rd AAPPS(Association of Asia Pacific Physics Societies)
Workshop on WIP. The main subjects of themeeting were “affirmative action” and “networkingof WIP in the Asia Pacific region”.

iv. Development of next generation―Science camps for school girls
Since 10 years, the summer (2005-) and spring (2006-) camps for junior-highand high-school girls have been held in Saitama prefecture and Kansai area,respectively. More than 100 school girls, who applied voluntary, enjoyed thefrontier of science. Our committee members participated in all of these 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 promote scientific interests of young school girls.

The experiment presented in 2013 and 2014 summer“Measurement of atmospheric pressure” and “Magnetic levitation”

camps:

Communication in English with
Korean students through network

v. Symposia in the JPS annual
meetings
At the annual meeting of the JPS, GEPC organizes a half-day symposium on
the promotion gender equality in physics. The recent symposia topics arefollowings. In annual JPS 2014 meeting, the symposium “Development of Next
Generation on Physics” has been organized collaboratively with gender equalityand physical education committees.

(1) “Positive Action-Governmental Supporting Policy to Accelerate
Career Development of Woman Researchers and Future
Prospect”, Okayama, Mar. 2010
(2) Canceled due to the earthquake on 11 Mar. 2011(3) “Work-Life Balance of People Who Work for Physics”,
Nishinomiya, Mar. 2012
(4) “Diversity and Physics”, Hiroshima, Mar. 2013
(5) “Development of Next Generation on Physics”, Mar. 2014.

Oral presentation and panel
discussion of the symposiumin the JPS annual meeting
held in Kanagawa, March2014.

vi. Publications
Publishing two articles: “News from the JPS
Gender Equality Promotion Committee” andfour Editorials since 2010 in the JPS
membership journal BUTSURI.

Website of Gender Equality Promotion Committee of JPS :http://k2.sci.u-toyama.ac.jp/triangle//