The Institute for Gender and Women's Studies

Contact

9 Katahira
Nagakute, Aichi , 480-1197
Ph. +81 561 62 4111 x498
Fx. +81 561 63 9308
http://www2.aasa.ac.jp/org/igws
igws@asu.aasa.ac.jp


The Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at Aichi Shukutoku University seeks to engage researchers, students, and local citizens by providing opportunities for the interchange and dissemination of information. Its goals are to encourage the reevaluation of the roles assigned to women and men in society and to gather information on gender-based discrimination worldwide. It provides information on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, international conferences on women, and NGO forums. The Institute also offers access to a variety of print and online information networks through its campus office. In addition, it sponsors international symposia and seminars, grants resource loans, facilitates reading services, and facilitates exchange programs with overseas scholars. Aichi Shukutoku University was the first co-educational university in Japan to establish an institute for research in women's and gender studies.

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Principal Staff

Junko Kuninobu, Director

Kiyomi Yamada, Communications

Areas of Expertise:

Affirmative Action, Awareness & Education, Higher Education, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Member Experts:


Projects & Campaigns

The 10th Research Meeting, held in January 2002, focused on "The Multiple Cultural Communications of Feminism in the Asia and Pacific Region."

The 9th Research Meeting, held in December 2001, explored a case study: "New Developments on Gender in the Philippines."

The 8th Research Meeting was held in November 2001 and was entitled "Comparing Gender Participation in Japan and America."

IGWS students and staff participate in programming throughout Asia; in 2002, programs were undertaken in Thailand, Mongolia and China.

In 2002, IGWS sponsored a seminar featuring Dr. Joyce Gelp of NYU which focused on political participation by women in Japan and the US.

Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science, IGWS is undertaking an examination of the gender gap in information and communication techologies.

Reports & Resources

2009
Book Publication: A Crossing of Gender
Report: Suggestion as to systematic program about gender education

IGWS Newsletter. Most recent edition published in March 2002: "Affirmative Action for Women's Equal Employment Opportunities."

Special Seminar Report: Instructor Dr. Barrie Thorn, Professor of Feminist Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. June, 1999

Research Meeting Report: "Modern Japanese Youth Attitudes to Marriage" (in Japanese); Instructor: Yoko Itamoto. November 1998

Research Meeting Report: "Sexual Harassment on Campus" Instructor: Mayako Inoue and Barbara Stuthered. June 1998

Report of the East Asian Women's Forum's Mongolian Conference (Japanese Version); Edited and published by the Japan Committee for the 3rd East Asian Women's Forum. November 1998

Feminist Sociology: Instructor Mayako Inoue