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The Japanese Women Engineers Forum (JWEF) was established in June 1992 to network Japanese women engineers
and scientists, improve their living and working environment, and thus, enhance their contribution to society.
Currently, JWEF has about 200 members.
Highly specialized and advanced science and technology of today has diversified professions of engineers and
scientists and increased the demand for them. This has brought greater opportunities for women engineers and
scientists. The Equal Employment Opportunity Law has also contributed to the improvement of working environment
of women engineers and scientists. However, in Japan, the number of women engineers and scientists is still small
as compared to that of men. Women engineers and scientists still have difficulties in obtaining professional careers
and promotion equal to men.
JWEF assists women engineers and scientists, who are often minority in their working places, communicate
each other and think together toward better professional and private/family lives. Through various activities of JWEF,
we aim at making proposals for realization of a society where both women and men work together.
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