Author：

Association of Women Scientists for a Brighter Future

Publisher：

Domesu Publishing Co.

As many of you may know, the Saruhashi Prize is awarded by the Association for a Brighter Future for Women Scientists, which was established with funds raised from donations made by Katsuko Saruhashi upon her retirement from the Meteorological Research Institute. It will be recalled that Professor Yoshiko Takahashi of the University of Tokyo was the 30th recipient of the prize.
In this book, the personal recollections of Katsuko Saruhashi by her classmates and the significance of the prize by the association's advisors are described so that you can understand the Saruhashi Prize well and hear the voices of eminent women scientists in various fields. The book also includes the words of all the laureates up to the 30th award (including introductions of the deceased). It is interesting to read about the research conducted by women scientists who are leaders in various fields of research, and it is common to find testimonies of how the Saruhashi Prize has become widely recognized as a result of winning the prize.
There are many interesting contents, such as "Listening to the Voice of Cells - Research on Shape Formation in Animal Development" written by Professor Yoshiko Takahashi, and the panel discussion "Learning from Dr. Katsuko Saruhashi" (Panelists: Yoshiko Akamatsu, Noriko Shiomitsu, Masako Bando; Moderator: Fumiko Yonezawa), which is the content of Chapter 4. The panelists are as follows.

Author：

Brenda Maddox (translated by Masami Kada under the supervision of Shinichi Fukuoka)

Publisher：

Chemical Colleague

Rosalind Franklin, the X-ray crystallographer who produced the research data that determined the structure of DNA, died of cancer in 1958 at the age of 37. However, three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Among them, Rosalind was known as the "Dark Lady. One of them, James Watson, wrote The Double Helix, which became a best-seller. It is doubtful that Watson and Crick would have made the great discovery of the structure of DNA without her presence. Watson's viewing of her X-rays, knowingly taken without her permission, led to his Nobel Prize. It is claimed that Rosalind's notes show that she herself should have arrived there shortly thereafter, alone.
This treatment of "Rosie" is sometimes interpreted as a variant of the old gendered tale of "that woman got what she deserved. They assume that this happened because she was a difficult and socially inept woman. But what kind of woman was Rosalind? This book sheds an objective and multifaceted light on Rosalind's life.

Author：

Keiko Kawashima

Publisher：

Transview

This is a book that deals with different topics related to Marie Curie, a book that allows us to think not only about science, but also about gender, war, and questions of human roots, a book that allows us to think about the world without forgetting our own country, Poland for Marie Curie and France for Marie Curie, France and America for Ave Curie (Marie Curie's second daughter), Japan and France for Nobuo Yamada and Toshiko Yuasa. I wondered if I could write a book that would allow us to think about other times and other places without leaving the here and now. From the Epilogue.
In her speech at the 1911 Nobel Prize ceremony for chemistry (she and her husband had won the physics prize in 1903, and Pierre died in a carriage accident in 1906), Marie Curie made it clear that she had first begun to study the fact that radiation phenomena similar to those of uranium could be confirmed in substances other than uranium. This was meant as a rebuttal to the view of those around her that she was "Pierre for brains and Marie for physical labor". Although Marie Curie seems to have been surrounded by fame, she lived in the midst of discrimination against women and ethnic discrimination because of her Polish origin in the society of her time. These attitudes affected the lives of her two daughters, for better or worse. This book also introduces a variety of people whose lives were connected to Marie Curie's radiation science, including her two daughters and a Japanese radiation researcher who moved to France.

Author：

Shizuko Sugii

Publisher：

Kamogawa Publishing Co.

Poverty and inequality" has been highlighted as a major issue in the wake of the "Haken Haken Giri" and "New Year's Eve Haken Mura" incidents. However, if you think about it, women have always been in the midst of poverty and inequality. It could be said that the term "inequality society" was first coined when it was extended to include men. The wage gap between men and women, the tax and social security systems, the difference in the price of life between boys and girls... gender can be seen in inequality. And gender is not only discrimination against women, but also against men. Even men have a hard life.
Whose name do you write in the "guardian" column of the documents you give to your children's school? What do you say when you talk to others about your husband? If your husband is your "master," are you a follower? Are you a hired hand?
There are many things you will notice when you are aware of the gender perspective. To change the society of inequality, we need to change our consciousness and society by speaking out against what is "wrong" from a gender perspective. Living in Disparity is an introductory book on gender theory that explains in an easy-to-understand way the legal discrimination against women and the customs and practices that remain strong even today.
If you feel that this society is difficult to live in, it is worth reading!

Author：

Kazuyo Katsuma, Rika Kayama

Publisher：

Asahi Newspaper Publishing

Katsuma-san says that happiness can only be achieved through effort. Ms. Kayama says there must be happiness that can be obtained without effort.
Kazuyo Katsuma, an economic commentator, says that effort is necessary to be happy. Instead of pushing oneself to the limit, one should enjoy the effort itself. To this end, she says, we must ensure that people have equal access to appropriate education and development opportunities. Psychiatrist Rika Kayama, on the other hand, wonders if it is possible to be happy without effort. If so, she asks how people who want to make an effort but are unable to do so, or who are unable to achieve results despite their efforts, can achieve happiness.
In this book, two people with opposing arguments clash about how to be happy, what makes people happy, and what awaits them after they have made efforts.

Author：

Hisano Ueda

Publisher：

Japan Economic Newspaper Inc.

The author is a woman who changed jobs four times after graduating from a company that believed women should work for three to five years, and is now a director and career counselor in a company that "makes the most of women". She has seen and experienced many workplaces and believes that "if we create a system that makes it easier for women to work, appoint women to leadership positions, and increase the number of opportunities for women to play an active role, women will work well and the company will be healthy. Companies that are stuck on the easy way of thinking: "If we create systems that make it easier for women to work, promote women to management positions, and increase the number of opportunities for women to play an active role, women will be energized, the company will be healthy, and the corporate image will improve. Utilizing women" does not mean "pretending to utilize women" by creating female executives, but rather creating an environment in which all women can actively participate in the public arena. What is important for this is the way the boss should be, and the book introduces classifications such as "Nobunaga Boss" and "Tulip Boss" for those who become motivation-stopper bosses, which made me laugh. He says that a boss who motivates his subordinates must have human skills, that is, the use of mind and concern shown in dealing with others. This is something that is honed day by day. If you have this power, you can become a motivational leader.
The statement that only a company with a vibrant and energetic female workforce has a future can also be applied to universities and other organizations.

Author：

Annette Casto-Zahn, Hartmut Morgenroth
(translated by Mari Furukawa)

Publisher：

ＰＨＰ Research Establishment

[Associate Professor Tomohiro Shibata, Mathematical Informatics Laboratory, Graduate School of Information Science]
Crying at night peaks when the baby is about 9 months old, and in some cases it goes away after that, while in other cases it continues until the baby is about 2 years old. I, too, started crying at night when my daughter was almost 6 months old, and I had to sleep in small segments every 2 to 3 hours. Not only did this interfere with my work, but it also left me and my wife with little time to raise our child.
At that time, I was looking for a way to solve the problem, and my wife found a book with a very high review rating on the Internet. I bought the book, hoping to find a way out of this problem, and after practicing the very simple methods described in the book, I found that within a week he was able to sleep alone, and he hardly cries at night anymore. Both parent and child are able to sleep well, and I enjoy raising my child every day. I have also introduced this book to my friends and they have been delighted and amazed at the quick results they have had. I highly recommend this book to anyone who suffers from night crying.
This book, written by a German psychologist and medical doctor, gives precise instructions on how to train babies while giving them a sense of security, based on the concept of "play together and name alone" by drawing out babies' learning abilities through a variety of examples. The book is a bestseller in Germany and is recommended by pediatricians.
The general countermeasures against night crying that I have seen and heard about so far have been methods of soothing babies who wake up crying at night, rather than methods of preventing night crying, because night crying is inevitable and everyone experiences it. This will always be a heavy burden on mothers raising their children. The revolutionary aspect of this book is that it introduces training methods to eliminate night crying itself. The book is also very compassionate and reassuring in that it clearly points out the effectiveness and safety of the training method from a medical point of view, rather than relying on the spiritual theory of maternal love.