Nadeshiko revisited: The situation of women in Japanese research and the measures taken to increase their representation

Noriko Saitoh; Susan M Gasser

doi:10.15252/embr.202152528

Nadeshiko revisited: The situation of women in Japanese research and the measures taken to increase their representation

EMBO Rep. 2021 Mar 3;22(3):e52528. doi: 10.15252/embr.202152528. Epub 2021 Feb 26.

Authors

Noriko Saitoh¹, Susan M Gasser^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cancer Biology, The Cancer Institute of JFCR, Tokyo, Japan.
² Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
³ ISREC Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Abstract

The Japanese government has enacted measures to increase the representation of women in research; the situation is improving but there is still much to do.

MeSH terms

Female
Government*
Humans
Japan