Organizing the Network of Women in Science and Technology in Asia

该项目的第一个目标是举办亚洲妇女参与科学和技术国际讲习班。我们邀请了来自韩国、中国、台湾、印度尼西亚和印度的9名研究人员参加了2006年9月29日至10月2日在名古屋举行的研讨会。这次讲习班的规模相当小，包括日本与会者在内，只有大约20名成员参加，这鼓励与会者就这些问题进行自由和坦率的讨论。虽然主题很广泛——物理、医学、信息通信技术产业、一般科学和科学政策——但讨论是活跃和积极的。日本的鸟井教授和韩国的朴教授介绍了一些针对希望进入大学学习理工科的女高中生的启发性活动，这对来自亚洲其他国家的成员来说无疑是一种鼓舞。这次讲习班的另一个成果是明确地确定了新出现的问题。其中之一是缺乏性别退化的统计数据。例如，中国和印度在收集国家层面的正确数据方面存在困难。另一方面，在印度尼西亚，面向女性的科学是一个比女性参与科学更为紧迫的问题。最后，研讨会使我们能够建立一个反映我们共同利益的网站：http://www.wstna.org/.We相信这将是我们未来发展网络的一个有用工具。

The first aim of this project was to hold an International Workshop on Women in Science and Technology in Asia. We invited 9 researchers from Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, and India to the workshop, which was held in Nagoya, September 29-October 2, 2006. The rather small size of this workshop which, including Japanese participants, involved about 20 members, encouraged attendees to engage in a free and frank discussion of the issues. Although the themes were broad-physics, medicine, the ICT industry, science in general, and science policies-the discussions were lively and positive. Prof. Torikai of Japan and Prof. Park of South Korea introduced some enlightening activities for high school girl students hoping to major in science and technology at university, which surely proved inspirational to the members from other Asian countries. Another fruit of this workshop has been the clear identification of emerging problems. One of these is a lack of sex-degenerated statistics. China and India, for example, are having difficulty in collecting correct data at the national level. In Indonesia, on the other hand, science for women is a much more urgent issue than women in science. Finally, the workshop has enabled us to put together a website reflecting our collective interests: http://www.wstna.org/.We believe this will be a useful tool in the development of our network in the future.