National Women's Education Center

Two Japanese national women’ s universities have decided to start Faculties of Engineering, and several Japanese national universities also announced to start the new entrance examination systems accepting female students in Faculties of Engineering. So, the Diversity Research Group in JSEE proposed Organized Session (OS) “A new diverse society created by female students in engineering” in the 70th and the 71st JSEE Annual Meetings. This paper proposes the discussion “why are female students in engineering expected?” form the perspectives of engineering education and enterprise.

This paper examines the results of a quantitative survey conducted on elementary and junior high school teachers with the aim of clarifying the background of the low proportion of women in managerial positions. The survey results show that there is a large gender gap in the division of roles in family life, and this gap also affects their attitudes towards getting managerial positions. They also reveal that gender stereotypes are widely accepted by teachers. Gender inequality among teachers can have a negative impact on students, such as providing disproportionate leader models and promoting their biased sense of values. This paper suggests the importance of engineering education from a gender perspective for school teachers to support female students to choose their science and engineering careers, which is one of the challenges for gender equality in the field of science and technology.

第67回国連女性の地位委員会（CSW）（優先テーマ：ジェンダー平等と全ての女性と女児のエンパワーメントの達成のためのイノベーション、技術変革、デジタル時代の教育）について、概要や合意結論の解説、会期中に開催されたイベントや日本政府代表団・NWECからの情報発信などを掲載しています。（2023年5月刊行）

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