WIE Japan
IEEE
Japan Council Women in Engineering Affinity Group
About Us
IEEE Japan Council Women in Engineering affinity group was officially
established May 2, 2005. This is the first WIE affinity
group in Japan.
Upcoming Event
Panel Discussion
- Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Time: 18:30-20:00
- Place: Lecture Hall #306, Main Building, Ochanomizu University
(Map http://www.ocha.ac.jp/access/index.html)
- Panel Discussion
"How to develop business career"
Panelists working in business organizations will talk passionately on their own experiences, supports useful for their career development, activities in their companies, expectations to young women engineers and researchers, etc.
- Moderator: Prof. Masumi Narita, Tokyo International University
- Panelists
- Miwako Doi, Toshiba
- Yukari Tsuji, NTT
- Kumi Hatsukano, Nissan Motor
- Takako Hashimoto, Ricoh
- Sponsor: IEEE Japan Council Women in Engineering Affinity Group
- Co-sponsor: Ochanomizu University
Read more in Japanese and apply!
Lecture by Prof. Mitiko Go, President of Ochanomizu University
In the afternoon of Saturday, March 1, 2008,
Prof. Mitiko Go, President of Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan gave
us a talk on "My Career Developed in International Society", based on
her own experience as a woman researcher who has developed a career in a
global background.
She noted the most challenging time for women researchers is a
child-rearing period when they have to take care of their children.
However, once these women survive this period, she asserted, they will
come out fully-developed researchers, founded on competence and
confidence built up over the difficult time.
Therefore, she points out at the necessity to provide a support system
for women researchers in the period of child-rearing.
President Go's own experience is a case in point. It is during her
child-rearing period that she made a pioneering discovery in
biochemistry, a feat praised globally by such prominent researchers as
Dr. Gilbert, a Nobel recipient in chemistry, which offered her a way
forward to professorship from a lecturer.
She is engaged in various activities to support women researchers
encouraging their career not only as President of Ochanomizu University,
but also as member of public councils that drive the future of science
and technology in Japan.
It was a quite successful lecture that was well-attended (around 70
attendees) and received overwhelming feedback.
Read the report in Japanese.
News
- Dr. Hideko Kunii, Vice Chair of WIE Japan, wrote an article
entitled "Gender Equality Activities in Ricoh R&D Group" in the
Journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.
Hideko Kunii: ``Gender Equality Activities in Ricoh R&D Group'',
J. IEICE, pp.565-566, July 2007 (in Japanese)
- IEEE WIE Japan received an honorable mention in the 2006 WIE
Affinity Group of the Year Award.

- Dr. Hideko Kunii, Vice Chair of WIE Japan, received "IEEE Tokyo
Section Women Pioneer Award" from Dr. Harashima, Tokyo Section Chair.

- Our activity has been reported in the April 2006 issue of the Journal of the
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers by
Prof. Kaoru Arakawa. See
Kaoru Arakawa: ``The Situation of Women Engineers in Germany : From the
First Lecture of IEEE Women in Engineering Japan'', J. IEICE,
pp.339-340, Apr. 2006 (in Japanese)