[U-23] New challenges to diversity, equality and inclusion under COVID-19

[U23-01] Large-scale survey of work and life in scientific and technological profession in Japan under Emergency Declaration caused due to COVID-19 and requests to Japanese government

★Invited Papers

*Noriko Hirata-Kohno¹, Misa Shimuta^2,3 (1.Nihon University, 2.EPMEWSE, 3.The Jikei University School of Medicine)

Keywords:EPMEWSE, STEM, Large scale survey, COVID-19, Requests to Japanese government

In Japan , since the ratio of female professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field is far behind other developed countries, "The Japan Inter-Society Liaison Association Committee for Promoting Equal Participation of Men and Women in Science and Engineering (EPMEWSE in short)" was established in 2002. Around 100 academic societies belong to the association and do working for gender equality.

As some JpGU member may already know, the major roll of EPMEWSE could be summarized as: 1) large Scale Survey for every five years to know the actual conditions of gender equality in STEM field in Japan, 2) proposals and requests to Japanese Government based on the survey results, 3) light survey the activities and female ratio of each member societies associated with EPMEWSE and 4) support STEM Programs for high school girls.
In this talk, we discuss our actual situation under Emergency Declaration caused due to COVID-19 based on our recent "Large-scale survey of work and life in scientific and technological profession" in Japan as well as related requests to Japanese government.