Nominated by The Federation of BPW Japan

Nomination form signed by Nobuko Kurosaki on 22 April 2008

Nominee Information

Postal Address:7-3-19-502, Roppongi, Minatoku, Tokyo, Japan
Telephone: +81-3-6406-0157, Fax: +81-3-3403-0809
E-mail: masa-502@palatte.plala.or.jp
Occupation: Managing Director, Cable Persons Inc.

Active in Occupation

BPW Office Held:

Club:

• BPW Tokyo President From 1970 to 1972

Federation:

• BPW Japan President From 1995 to 99/ from 2003-2005

BPW International:

• Environment & Sustainable Development From 1999 to 2002

Positions in other Voluntary Organisations:

Coordinator of the International Women’s Year Liaison Group (since 2002 till now)

Vice President, National Women’s Committee of UN NGOs (since 1997 till now)

Related experience/qualifications qualifications:

worked more than 40 years at radio-station and other mass media as reporter, commentator and/or program-director

member of some committees such as Liaison Conference for the promotion of Gender Equality

Supporting Statement

As a member of BPW, I have been working hard on gender equality and gender empowerment, especially of business and professional women.

1) The reason to be a candidate for the vice president

I’d like to work as vice president of BPWI, because I found an urgent problem to tackle with other members. The aging era is rapidly expanding not only in Japan but also in many countries. This is a serious issue for both the aged and the young generation. So as BPWI, which concerns women’s situations in various stages of their life, the immediate measurements for the aging era and/or society should be made, including one who have worked for the business. For this reason: If I would be elected, I should like to frame out the BPWI guideline and to challenge with other members for this issue. Japan is the top runner of the aging society in the world, and is facing with lots of difficult subjects for women who have worked to challenge the gender discrimination of labor markets.

2) My Activities in BPW and in other NGOs

I became a member of BPW Tokyo 35 years ago, and have worked as the president of BPW-Tokyo Club. At that time, the main theme was the amendment of the gender discriminated labor standard law. In 1999 I was elected as the chair of standing committee of the environment & sustainable development of BPWI and had a chance to participate in the UN Global Environment Meeting at Johannesburg (2000) and UN- CSW of 2001 (main theme was the environment). Since then, I have been attending the UN-CSW every year, and I could build deeper bond with government delegations, BPWI members, and other NGOs participating the meeting. Through these experiences, I could come up with an idea of new project and submitted it to BPW Japan such as “CSW Internship Project” which has been continued for these five years by BPW-young members of Japan.

In a federation level, I have worked as the president of BPW Japan for 6 years. At the same time, I was elected as the board member of the umbrella organizations called the International Women’s Year Liaison Group (organized in 1975 by 42 national women’s organizations) and the National Women’s Committee of UN NGOs (organized in 1958 by 10 organizations belonging to international organizations). Through these organizations, BPW Japan has nominated some members for the seat of public committees and our NGO delegation to UN General meeting as government delegation.

Taking these concerns and experiences I have into consideration, I am sure I can work as the vice president of BPWI energetically in order to make women’s situation better in all stages of their life. I hope that my suggestion of creating guideline and measurement for aging society by cooperation with all BPWI federations will contribute to our future of BPWI as well as working women in the world.