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Mission Statement
GEWEL is committed to promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the Japanese society, in which people work with fulfillment according to their values and way of life without being constrained by gender, age, and background.

What's New

GOLD/GEWEL “Impact Leadership” Symposium
Join us to unlock your leadership potential!

Date: Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, Tokyo, JAPAN
Please click here for details. WEB site
Symposium Flyer (PDF File 2.7MB)

Ms. Gay Gaddis, President and CEO of T3 mentioned Ann Sado in her blog about the Global Summit of Women in Hanoi.

The 2nd Open House was held on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008.

Participants to the Global Summit of Women held in Hanoi presented their impressions on the Summit.
Please see the open house brief report here.

Report on Diversity & Inclusion Survey among Middle Managers

The survey was conducted from November to December 2007 with 1,178respondents.
Please see the report. (PDF File 168KB)

Global Summit of Women 2008 was held in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The event was featured on the front page of Viet Nam News. (PDF 4K)
For details, please access to www.globewomen.com/

Report from Europe

Our GEWEL Director, Kyoko Sakuma in Europe reports from one of our European advisors, Marianne E. Johnsen, X-ellence Group Partner in Norway!

The 2003 Act requires 487 public limited companies to increase their proportion of women on their boards to 40% by 31st December 2007.

Results:

  1. As of January 1st, 2008, 98% of the companies met the obligation, despite newspaper articles throughout 2007 reporting that Norwegian firms would face shut-down if they did not manage to find female directors.
  2. The percentage of women on the board was 6% in 2001, today increased to 37%.
  3. There was a silent and informal movement among a dozen of female directors to stay together and encourage/support each other to move into top positions.
  4. The key word for this informal movement was network and intimacy.

Related to the above, there are some movements in Belgium. The Flemish Government together with Guberna (Belgium Directors' Institute) launched a database creation for potential 'professional board member' female candidates in autumn 2007. This is to facilitate companies to consult and select competent female candidates into the board room.

Global Summit of Women from June 14th to June 16th in Berlin, Germany.
Our Vice President, Ms. Ann Sado has participated as the moderator for the session entitled “Securing Corporate Contracts: Best Practices in Corporate Supplier Diversity Programs,” and Ms. Yoshimaru of Nissan has participated as a panelist in the session on “Leaders’ Voices in the Work/Family Debate.”
For more information on 2007 Global Summit of Women, please access to www.globewomen.com/

Results of Working Women’s Attitude Survey 2006
PDF file 918K
You are free to link to this file.
However, if you want to reprint or quote any part of this file, please notify us at the following contact and also indicate clearly that the survey was conducted by NPO GEWEL.
Contact: NPO GEWEL E-mail: info@GEWEL.org

Meeting with a Singaporean Minister
GEWEL met with the female Singaporean Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports in Tokyo late June after the Global Summit of Women in Cairo. For details, please access to the following URL.
http://app.mcys.gov.sg/web/faml_enablewomen_events.asp
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Global Summit of Women in Mexico in June 23rd - 25th, 2005
6 members of GEWEL's directors and advisors joined the summit.
If you are interested in Global Summit of Women, please access to the following URL.
http://www.globewomen.com/

Basic Data for Diversity Promotion 
GEWEL has compiled its own basic data for diversity promotion selecting from various data issued by government and private organizations.

Our data can be useful for people who ;
  • want to know the current situation of Japanese working women.
  • want to use as internal presentation materials to promote female leadership in organizations.
  • are in charge of job counseling at high school and universities
  • are in media and researchers
  • are working at embassies in Japan or interested in study of Japan.

Our data consists of ;

  • Quick overview of working women in the last 20 years.
  • Step up version
  • Work and life balance
  • Various way of working
  • Comparison with the world

The data book is available both in Japanese and English. If you are interested in, please contact Ms.Sasaki at sasaki@gewel.org and specify the language and the data you would like to have.

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