Women in Science: Plan to drop goals for women roils Japanese Science: Change stirs debate about how underrepresentation of women.

Dennis Normile reported about the Japanese female scientists in the next 5-year National Research Plan of Governmental. Especially, it is the crucial point whether or not to set the numerical targets for female researchers in STEM. CSTI recognize that targets have not had as much in pact as we would like. But female researchers are thinking that things would stall without numerical targets.

Primary Source: Science 349 Issue 6244 p127-128､ July 10, 2015 by Dennis Normile, in Tokyo

Original Creator's Affiliation: Science