Empowerment of female researchers ～Educational activities by NWEC and Paper based Exhibition of Recommended Books

National Women's Education Center (NWEC) is an organization dedicated to promoting gender equality in Japan. The Information Center for Women's Education of NWEC displays books under different themes every 3 months. The theme of STEM female researchers have been taken up in displays titled; “Female workers in civil engineering, architectonics, agriculture and logistics” and “Let's find your role model! The life history of female workers and researchers in STEM”. The Women's Archives Center of NWEC exhibits the history of women's challenges by using archive materials. History of female researchers in chemistry (2011), architectonics (2012), astronomy (2015), and medical science (2019) have been exhibited in the past. In this article, NWEC's librarians recommend several books for the empowerment of female researchers. Also, it will introduce NWEC's services which will help readers to get information on how to display books and panels about female researchers.