Sasaki KEIKO (佐々木 啓子)

This paper examines how the memories of college days and interactions with the philanthropy society influenced the educational views of Japanese women who returned to Japan after studying abroad. I focus on three female presidents of women’s colleges who graduated from Bryn Mawr College (BMC) with support from the American Women’s Scholarship for Japanese Women (AWSJW). I demonstrate that their educational vision and practices were formed through their experience in the BMC days and their relationships with the philanthropist society of Philadelphia.

This article explores the Japanese history of women’s adult
social education after the Second World War and presents
a case study of the women’s classes held in Chofu City. Under the Allied Occupation following the war, the democratisation of Japan was urgent, and developing women’s adult education was indispensable. The newly established Women’s and Minors’ Bureau and the women’s affairs sections of local governments played, as promoters, a pivotal role in enlightening Japanese women and encouraging them to put their own ideas into action. In Chofu City, the women who completed the women’s courses or classes became the leaders of a variety of voluntary grassroots movements and learned skills related to progressive action, life improvement and creative activities. In the 1980s, there was an international trend towards gender equality in society. At long last, the open classes for women turned into adult education classes including males.

佐々木発表部分：女性学長、特に公立女性学長では「学外からの登用」が男性に比べて多い。平均勤務年数は公立女性学長で最も短く8.9年。国立大学（男女）では26.8年。分布をみれば私立女性学長では10年以上勤務者の割合が低い。
「同窓生」比率は国立大学（男女）学長で37.2％と高い。私立女性学長でやや高いものの、18.９％である。
女子大学（78校）の女性学長数は22名（28.2％）である。そのうち９名がその女子大学の同窓生である。女性学長は「学部長・学科長」から選出されるケースは少なく、「学長・副学長」から就任するケースが多い。また「理事長・理事」および「行政機関・企業・国際機関」から就任するケースも比較的多い。
近年急増している副学長についていえば、その女性比率は2013年ごろまでは学長の女性比率よりも低く、2020年でも（2019年統計）１０％台に止まっている。