The Council for Gender Equality, an advisory body to the Prime Minister chaired by Sumiko Iwao, Professor at the Musashi Institute of Technology and Professor Emeritus of Keio University, delivered a report to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. The report, "Fundamental Thinking Regarding a Basic Plan for Gender Equality: Major Issues for the Twenty-first Century," represented the results of surveys and deliberations regarding the task with which the council had been charged in August 1999, to define basic policy directions for promoting the formation of a gender-equal society based on the Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society.