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

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)