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“Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology” (Known as ”Funds for Development of Human Resources in Science and Technology” from 2011) started the “Supporting Positive Activities for Female Researchers” in 2009 in order to “Accelerate the development of capabilities of women to become outstanding researchers in the fields of science, engineering, and agricultural science, where the proportion of women employed is low, taking the broad approach of recruiting and training persons with a wide variety of talents, and promoting equal participation of men and women”.
There were 17 applicants in total from all over the country and 5 programs were adopted including those at Kyushu University in 2009. In 2010, 7 programs were adopted. Each university promotes their own particular activities. （Press Release, Kyushu University, 2009/7/17 in Japanese ）
There were 7 applicants in 2010. This year also, each university promoted unique activities, such as the entire university carrying out recruitment only for females.
The proportion of female researchers was lower than 10 percent as of March 31st, 2009 at Kyushu University. In order to increase women researchers and promote gender equality at the Faculties, Kyushu University carried out the original employment and training system of setting up female posts. In 2007, the “Point system for manpower management” was introduced at Kyushu University. Each Faculty in the fields of science, engineering, and agricultural science, contributes Points toward female posts under proportional distribution. Each Faculty simultaneously started advertising internationally for female researchers and selecting candidates (The first screening test). Then the nominees are evaluated on an absolute scale at their interviews by the Research Strategy Committee concerning their achievements and abilities (The second screening test). In addition, employment and training plans and activities for gender equality at Faculties are examined during the second stage judgment.
Job information is here.
In the fields of science, engineering, and agricultural science, this program is financially supported by the “Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology”. In the other fields where the proportion of women employed is low the program is financially supported by Kyushu University.
The university’s effort was evaluated as a program to promote the system renovation for employing excellent people for senior positions and marked as the highest “S” at the interim evaluation in 2011 and at the ex-post evaluation in 2014. The same effort will be continuously made at the university’s expense up to 2018.
In the fields of science, engineering, and agricultural science, there were 170 applicants in total among the eight faculties, and 10 women researchers were employed after passing the second screening tests in 2009.
From 2009 to March 2014, a total of 40 female researchers (Professor: 4, Associate Professor: 23, Assistant Professor: 13) were employed.
| Fiscal year（Faculties） | Applicants | Employment | Total employment | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor | Associate Professor | Assistant Professor | |||
| 2009 (8) | 170 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| 2010 (6) | 87 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2011 (7) | 117 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2012 (6) | 89 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 2013 (4) | 32 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Fiscal year（Faculties） | Applicants | Employment | Total employment | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor | Associate Professor | Assistant Professor | |||
| 2010 (4) | 107 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 (3) | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 (5) | 74 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 (1) | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Results are here.
Each appointee will be provided with multifaceted supports such as research funds, supports for life events, and reskilling seminars. Some of the supports are provided for female researchers.
(Other research funding depends on the Faculty)
Appointees will have priority to receive support for travel allowances to attend international conferences and for contributions to international journals from the time of employment to their third year.
Reskill seminars for English, and research funding are carried out.
This program serves for promoting gender equality along with multifaceted support systems for female researchers.
With this program as a trigger, each faculty promotes gender equality and provides the necessary equipment as follows:
Women Researchers Promotion Program
