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2014年度〜2015年度 Chair挨拶
WIE 第5代 Chair
(株)ピコサーム 石川 佳寿子
IEEE Japan Council WIE の 第５代 Chair （2014-15年） を拝命した石川です。 着任にあたりご挨拶申し上げます。
まず初代会長 黒田道子先生、第２代会長 國井秀子氏、第３代会長 Basabi Chakraborty先生、第４代会長 橋本隆子先生を始めとする歴代の役員・関係者の皆様のこれまでのご尽力に敬意を表したいと思います。IEEE JC WIE は 2005年５月に設立され、本年で１０年目を迎えます。これまで、女性技術者・研究者のロールモデルの紹介、ネットワーキング推進、キャリア開発のためのワークショップなど、さまざまな活動を行ってまいりました。
昨今、社会において女性の活躍推進への期待／機運が高まっております。女性技術者・研究者の数も年々増加しており、女性技術者・研究者を取り巻く環境も変化しておりますが、まだまだ課題が多い状況です。
女性の感性や想像力が未来の技術に寄与し、未来を切り拓いていく社会に向けて、女性技術者・研究者のキャリアアップの支援と会員拡大を目指していきたいと思います。ネットワーキングやキャリアモデルの提示は女性のキャリアアップの課題を克服するうえで重要な役割を果たすと考えております。
微力ながら、着実に前進していきたいと思いますので、会員の皆様には従前同様変わらず、ご協力ご支援のほどよろしくお願いいたします。
Fifth Chair of WIE
Kazuko Ishikawa, PicoTherm Corporation
Please allow me, Kazuko Ishikawa, a few words upon assuming duties as the fifth chair of IEEE Japan Council Women in Engineering Affinity Group.
First, I want to commend the efforts of my predecessors, First Chair Professor Michiko Kuroda, Second Chair Dr. Hideko Kunii, Third Chair Professor Basabi Chakraborty and Fourth Chair Professor Takako Hashimoto, as well as the efforts of the board members and all who have contributed. IEEE JC WIE will soon round out a full decade since its May 2005 founding. In the first decade, we held workshops and other activities to introduce role models for women engineers and researchers, to promote networking, and to advance careers.
These days both expectations and opportunities are increasing for advancing women’s activities in society. We women engineers and researchers are becoming more numerous every year and our milieu is changing, but many issues remain.
Looking toward a society in which women’s sensitivities and imaginations contribute to future technologies and carve out the future, I aim to support career advancement for women engineers and researchers, and increase membership. I believe that networking and the presentation of career models play important roles in overcoming barriers to women’s career advancement.
I will do my best to move forward on a firm footing and ask all members to continue to lend me and the group their support.
2012年度〜2013年度 Chair挨拶
WIE 第4代 Chair
千葉商科大学 橋本隆子
IEEE Japan Council WIE の 第4代 Chair （2012-13年） を拝命した橋本です．
着任にあたりご挨拶申し上げます．
まず初代会長 黒田道子先生，第2代会長 國井秀子氏，第3代会長 Basabi Chakraborty先生を始めとする歴代の役員・関係者の皆様のこれまでのご尽力に敬意を表したいと思います．IEEE JC WIE は 2005年5月に設立され，本年で8年目を迎えようとしています．これまで女性技術者・研究者のロールモデルの紹介，ネットワーキング推進，キャリア開発のためのワークショップなど，さまざまな活動を行ってまいりました．これらの活動は国内外から高く評価され，2009年にはIEEE WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award 及び IEEE R10 WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award の2つの章を受賞しました．IEEE JC WIE が今日ここまで発展してきたのは，JC WIEの役員に皆様が女性技術者，研究者の育成，IEEE 地位向上さらには国際的な貢献のためにご多忙にも拘わらず粘り強い活動をされていらした成果だと思います．
日本における女性技術者・研究者をとりまく環境は日々改善されてきていますが，それでも女性がエンジニアリング分野で活躍するためには，まだまだ課題が多い状況です．特に日本では，封建的な考え方や地域的な制限により女性の活躍が阻まれるということが少なくありません．女性の地位は未だに極めて低く，世界経済フォーラムの Gender Gap Indexで98位という状態です．
また昨年は東日本大震災という未曾有の大災害が起こり，長引く不況もあいまって，女性技術者・研究者の支援がますます手薄になってくる状況があります．
そうした中で，私たち女性エンジニアが自らのキャリアを切り開き，社会に貢献していくためには，私たち自身が緊密なネットワークを気付き，お互いに協力しあうことが大切です．特にこの大震災という大きな災害の後，私たち女性技術者・研究者は，被災された方々に対して技術者・研究者として何ができるかを考えていく必要があります．
こうした中，IEEEという国際的な学会組織において，我々JC WIEは世界，とりわけアジア諸国と手を結び，日本の女性技術者， 研究者のレベルアップを推進していくことができると確信しています．ぜひ多くの皆さまに JC WIE の活動にご参加いただき，ご指導・ご協力を賜ることができれば．．と望んでおります．
微力ながら，着実に前進していきたいと思いますので， 会員の皆様には従前同様変わらずご支援のほど宜しくお願いします．
As the 4th Chair of IEEE Japan Council Women In Engineering Affinity Group, please allow me a few words as I assume my duties.
First, let me commend the efforts of our First Chair Professor Michiko Kuroda, the Second Chair Dr. Hideko Kunii, the Third Chair Professor Basabi Chakraborty, and the board members as well as all the others who have contributed. WIE Japan has marked 8 years since its establishment in May 2005. We made great progress by promoting various activities for supporting female researchers and engineers. Our activities have been highly evaluated both at home and abroad and on 2009. We received both IEEE WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award and IEEE R10 WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award. This reflects our persistence efforts in nurturing female engineers and researchers, improving the status, and their international contributions.
Women researchers' and engineers' status in Japan has been improved gradually, but it is still very low, ranking 98th in the Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum. Still a lot of problems remain for the women to take active role in the field of engineering. Particularly in Japan, women's outside activity is not encouraged by feudal mindedness and conservative regional limitations.
In addition to this, the prolonged economic recession and the Great East Japan Earthquake and other disasters tend to force the support for female engineers/researchers to diminish.
In this situation, it is very important for us, women engineers, to build network and cooperate with each other for opening up of our career and contribution to the society.
With this view in mind my plan is to promote the extension of the activities of IEEE JC WIE to consider recovering areas destroyed by disasters besides conventional activities. Especially, as for the education and female career developments, I believe that JC WIE can lead different programs in this situation.
Our basic aim is to further develop our current activities to improve the career development of women engineers and researchers. It is my great pleasure to welcome our new members. I sincerely hope that for the coming two years I will receive your positive involvement, constructive opinion and continued support and with our collective effort we will be able to make major contributions in improving women's status and participation in Scienfic and Engineering field world wide.
My warmest regards and sincere thanks to all IEEE JC members for their full-hearted support.
Takako Hashimoto
2010年度〜2011年度 Chair挨拶
Greetings to all and best wishes for the New Year!!
It is my pleasure to become the third Chair of IEEE JC Women in Engineering Affinity Group. I feel very much honored to assume the duties from my predecessor, Dr. Hideko Kunii, an enthusiastic entrepreneur and a leading professional in her field.
I hope to make good use of the wisdom and experience I inherited from her during past years. WIE Japan has been able to make its presence quite visible in and outside Japan due to her hard work and visionary leadership for the past two years. I am also grateful to all the board members for their sincere efforts to enhance the activities of WIE Japan and for organizing various successful events to nurture and improve the status of female engineers and researchers.
We are happy to find that this year women's status in Japan has been improved according to the ranking of Gender Gap Index by the World Economic Forum. But it is still poor compared to other industrialized nations. We need to extend our current activities to increase participation and involvement of women in work pool, particularly in scientific and technical areas, which is an extremely urgent need for the nation’s economic development amidst declining population.
In this era of globalization, in order to fulfill an international obligation, it is very important to establish cooperation with other WIE Affinity groups in Region 10 member countries by organizing joint activities to achieve empowerment of women in society.
It is my great pleasure to welcome our new members. I sincerely hope that for the coming two years I will receive your positive involvement, constructive opinion and continued support and with our collective effort we will be able to make major contributions in improving women’s status and participation in Scienfic and Engineering field world wide.
My warmest regards and sincere thanks to all IEEE JC members for their full-hearted support.
Basabi Chakraborty
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Software and Information Science,
Iwate Prefectural University, Iwate