Initiatives
We will strive to develop a university community where all members, regardless of age, gender, or background, can balance their work and studies with other demands of their life. This commitment includes efforts to foster attitudes conducive to work-life balancing, enrich on-campus childcare facilities, provide support to family nursing care, make other institutional improvements, and increase awareness of the various forms of support offered.
Driven by our desire to advance gender equality in academia, we will actively hire and nurture female researchers, and further strengthen our support/employment programs for helping women to serve as leaders on campus, at academic conferences, and across society as a whole.
To cultivate the next generation of promising women researchers, we will continue and further develop the Science Ambassadors (SA) program. Through these activities, we aim to promote and foster a strong sense of research mission among undergraduate and graduate students, while also advancing initiatives that support their development through hands-on, experiential learning.
Honoring achievements
We will establish the Tohoku University Gender Equality Award to honor people whose achievements in diverse fields have contributed greatly to the advancement of gender equality in academia.
As a university centrally located in the Tohoku region, we will work together with the many universities, government agencies, and other stakeholders in this region to promote gender equality in community development, post-disaster reconstruction, and other local projects.
Promoting internationalization
As befits a university aspiring to be a global leader in research and education, we will promote gender equality in our internationalization efforts as well, including by providing work-life balance support tailored to researchers and students from abroad.
We will set up the Tohoku University Center for Gender Equality Promotion and other permanent organizations for ensuring the smooth implementation of the aforementioned gender equality actions, and will establish two new positions, Director (or Executive Vice President) for Gender Equality and Special Advisor to the President on Gender Equality, to oversee these efforts.