What is the Center for Gender Equality ?

About the establishment of the Center for Gender Equality

The Office for Gender Equality was established on January 21, 2003 in order to actively work to achieve gender equality through internal processes at Nagoya University. It was the first national university in Japan to take this step. Specifically, the Office's duties include involvement in positive action, correcting gender discrimination and disparities, complaint processing system for monitoring purposes, the Gender Equality Social Promotion / Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Forum, the Basic Humanities-Sciences Gender Research Project, the Policy Research Project, and other avenues to promote gender equality at this University.


Structure of Center for Gender Diversity

Director: Mariko Yamasaki
  (Professor, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences)
Vice Director: Eiko Yamamoto
  (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine)
Vice Director: Akira Uritani
  (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering)
Vice Director: Tetsuki Tamura
  (Professor, Graduate School of Law)
Center Member: Yoko Hayashi
  (Professor, Center for Gender Diversity)
Center Member: Mayumi Saegusa
  (Associate Professor, Center for Gender Diversity)
Center Member: Gyoku Jo
(Designated assistant professor, Center for Gender Diversity)