Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2015 September, 237(1)

Letter to the Editor

Comment on “Gender Gap in Medicine: Only One Woman Councilor in the Japan Surgical Society”

MASAKI NIO¹

¹Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

keywords —— gender gap; Japan Surgical Society; Japanese Society of Pediatric Surgeons; quota system; work-life balance

© 2015 Tohoku University Medical Press

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Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2015, 237, 39-40

Correspondence: Masaki Nio, M.D., Ph.D. Immediate-Past President of the Japanese Society of Pediatric Surgeons. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574, Japan.

e-mail: mnio@ped-surg.med.tohoku.ac.jp