November 9, 2007
Few Women Reach the Top in Japan's Universities
At 68 and after a lifetime of academic work, Mitiko Go is at the top of her profession: president of Tokyo's Ochanomizu University. That might not seem like that unusual an accomplishment, but she is the only female president among Japan's 87 national universities.
"Obviously this is not good enough," she laments. "We have to do better."
Japan's higher-education system is the second largest in the world, after the United States, but it fares much worse than the United States
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