From replies given to survey-questions, we analyzed the relationship between lectors' gender and course-selection.

Niigata University routinely sends graduate students to, and receives students from, juniorand senior high schools, where our students present lectures on a broad range of topics, in order to develop female researchers in next generation. In the pages that follow, we recount a just-completed series of physics-and technology-themed seminars, and compare them with similar events held for students of the natural sciences. Also discussed, is the unique educational method we devised for our graduate students, to give them the best possible chances of success.KEYWORDS: Japan, development of the next generation of female researchers, model for supporting female scientist