Activities :Interviews with L-WIN members,Workshops, Symposia, Open Lectures,
Conferences via satellite, Annual Lecture Series andClassroom Lectures, Sharing Activity Films,
Production of L-WIN Mailing List,
L-WIN Newsletter Publishing
Production of L-WIN Website

Access to Campus

Founding Members（Executive Committee）:
Noriko Mizuta（Chancellor, Josai University Educational Corporation）,
Network Leader and Chairperson

Liu Jinan（Former President of Beijing Communication University）

Rose Tseng（Former Chancellor of Hawaii University at Hilo）

Chen Naifang（Former President of Beijing Foreign Studies University）

Sandra Harding（Vice-Chancellor and President, James Cook University）

Mary Jossy Nakandha Okwakol（Vice-Chancellor, Busitema University）

Judith Kinnear（Vice-Chancellor, Massey University）

Managing Office :Located at the Josai University Educational CorporationHeadquarters
Josai University Educational Corporation
Office of the Chancellor
3-26 Kioi-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094 JAPANl-win@jiu.ac.jp
tel 81-3-6238-1200 fax 81-3-6238-1299

L-WINⓒ2008

Leaders - WomenInternationalNetwork

The Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts

Founded : September 25th, 2008

Goals and Founding Message :In the increasingly globalized 21st Century, leaders

due to the lack of educational training andare demanded to assume a position not only in one

professional support, nor can they hope for openings

The L-WIN organization had its first incarnation incorporation, one organization, or one country, butthat eventually lead them to international leadership

Nanjing, China, September, 2008, at the farewellalso in the multinational societies, which requirespositions. These are critical to promote and support

evening gathering of the World Women University

full-fledged capabilities and wealth of experiences, aswomen leaders.

Presidents Executive Planning Committee, wherewell as knowledge and training. It is true that theL-WIN was born out of several intense but intimate

female university presidents around the world sharedsheer lack of women leaders in the world is attributed

discussions on this issue among the world women

their thoughts on the acute importance of educating

to complex socio-cultural situations and elements, anduniversity presidents. These presidents have beenand developing women leaders.

it cannot be explained by simple and generictaking initiatives in educational leadership in different

The 20th Century has witnessed progresses impacting

institutional causal models. However, there is no doubt

parts of the world, with a goal of promoting andon women’ s rights, and civil rights, as well as women’ s

that one common socio-cultural element around thesupporting young women in leadership training –participation in the labor market. However, the increased

world is the fact that women are disadvantaged fromthrough their volunteer activities drawing on their

number of female workers in general has not yet resulted

insufficient access to education and training. It isexperiences as university presidents and in otherin an increased number of the women in the decisionequally important to note that there are not enoughprofessional leadership capabilities.

making positions. Although the pathway to higher“sponsors (or mentors)” who can help them navigate

Since L-WIN started as an association of female

education for women has been significantly opened up,

the career, obtain necessary experiences, and develop

university presidents around the world, it has grown

the socio-cultural environment has not been sufficiently

leadership skills.

beyond its original framework of female leaders indeveloped for those highly educated women to grow up

Unfortunately, we simply, and numerically, have too

the universities. It has developed into a much wider

to their potential and eventually assume the leadershipfew women leaders who are available to serve as roleinternational network of educational support

position. One of the difficulties for working women thatmodels. Thus, opportunities to directly work withorganizations, offering vital information andprevents them from fully participating in the leadership

female role-models and participate in leadership

opportunities for internship programs. It nurtures

roles is the fact that many women are still burdened withactivities and positions are extremely hard to come by.

and connects aspiring women for them to learn

the double responsibilities of work and family.

Young women can hardly plan out their career paths

directly from our fellow women leaders of the world.