The center will work to support female researchers not only at Itabashi Campus where it is located, but throughout the entire university. To that end, it aims to provide support from a broad perspective, such as by investigating and analyzing the environment that is easy for all staff to work in, so that female doctors and researchers can choose from a variety of career paths. We support the development of female physicians and female researchers across the university, so that women can maximize their potential and continue to pursue high-quality research throughout their lives while also balancing their roles in society.
Message from the Head of Center
Head of Center OKINAGA Hiroko Professor
Support Center for Women Physicians and Researchers was opened at Teikyo University on April 1, 2013. The university will work to develop female physicians and researchers, regardless of gender, across all faculties in order to maximize the potential of women and enable them to pursue high-quality research activities throughout their lives while also balancing their roles in society. Together with the Gender Equality Committee in each faculty, the Center will work to create a comfortable working environment for all employees of the university, regardless of gender, and to make research and education environments more attractive.
Background of establishment
For female doctors and researchers, it is required to enhance the system and environment so that the place of education and research becomes more attractive. In addition, there are increasing calls for female doctors and researchers to play an active role in the medical field as a countermeasure against the chronic shortage of local doctors and the collapse of medical care that Japan is facing.
Established for the purpose of supporting female doctors and researchers
Japan is lagging far behind other OECD countries in the advancement of women in society, and this is an urgent issue in today's society with an aging population and declining birthrate.In the medical field, the new physician clinical system was introduced in 2004, and there is a desire for female physicians to play an active role in the medical field due to a decrease in university entrants due to matching, a shortage of physicians in rural areas, and the collapse of the medical system. Against this background, there has been a movement led by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Japan Science and Technology Agency to support female researchers and promote gender equality activities, and Teikyo University established Support Center for Women Physicians and Researchers on April 1, 2013, and in August 2013 was selected for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Science and Technology Human Resources Development Subsidy "Support Project for Female Researchers' Research Activities (General Type)" and began to systematically promote the project. This project was carried out with the hope that it would not only enable women to balance work and family life, but would also greatly contribute to the future development of Japanese research by unearthing the potential of young scientific researchers. Our university's Itabashi Campus, where the center is located, is a medical campus that plays an important role in nurturing medical personnel in an era of declining birthrates and an aging population, which Japan is facing. In 2023, the center was selected for the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's Medical Facility Operating Expenses Subsidy "Support Project for Medical Professionals of the Child-rearing Generation," and is working to further support young female doctors and medical professionals, including students, and expand the project.
Head of Center OKINAGA Hiroko (Executive Director)
Director Makoto Asashima (Director)
Deputy Director Yumiko Okubo (Chair Professor) Kazuo Okanoya (Vice Director)
Room staff 3 people
(As of June 2025)
Gender Equality Promotion Committee
The Gender Equality Promotion Committee was established in 2013 as the parent organization for planning and managing gender equality and support for female researchers at our university. In 2016, the committee also established working groups specializing in specific fields, including the Attitude Reform Working Group, the Environmental Improvement Working Group, the Education and Research Ability Improvement Working Group, and the Female Ratio Improvement Working Group, to conduct studies and implementation.
