The Gender Gap in Mathematics : Overview, Problems and AWM's Approach (Women in Mathematics)

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The Gender Gap in Mathematics:
Overview, Problems and AWM's Approach
Kathryn Leonard
President of AWM
adaptedfrom slides f?y Karoline Pershell

Mission of AWM
The purpose of the Association for Women in Mathematics is to
create a community in which women and girls can thrive in their
mathematical endeavors, and to promote equitable opportunity and
treatment of women and others of marginalized genders and
gender identities across the mathematical sciences.

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Overview

Efforts to close the gender gap in mathematics
- Targeted recruiting
- Women-only programs
- Other mechanisms

Underlying structures undermine progress
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Gender imbalance
Harassment
Institutionalized practices
Unintentional outcomes

Harassment problem
Many women are pushed out of the profession
Those who remain are impeded by
- Harassment
- Hostile work environment
- Not being taken seriously
While men are certainly not immune to harassment and bullying,
women are overwhehningly targets.

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"Individual" Solution

Empowering women in mathematics
- Building cohorts
- Mentorship from those "who have been through it"
- Response tactics
- Training on "how to navigate the system"

This alone is not sufficient!
- Programming should also focus on changing institutionalized behaviors

Institutional opportunities
Institutional change:
• Identify and change behaviors and understandings
• Identify and change policies that contribute to negative climates
• Recognize that mathematical progress cannot be decoupled from the
cultural context that produces it

When members of the community are ostracized, harassed, or
made to feel unwelcome, then the success of mathematics as a
whole is put into jeopardy.

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Training

Aligning Action and the Crossroads (AAC) workshop:
• Active bystander training
• Role-playing with improv actors
• Data sharing
• Intersectionality
Topical workshops at math meetings
• AWM 101
• How to apply for an NSF grant
• Starting a research collaboration

Student Chapters
• Free AWM membership
• Annual awards in sustainability, professional development,
scientific excellence
• Annual meeting to share best practices

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Research Networks

• Research collaboration workshop
• Follow-on event at a conference
• AWM-Springer Proceedings volume
• Website with women in the field listed
• Steering committee
Women in Numbers, B/RS

La Matematica
• Shorter time to review
• Constructive reviews
• Diverse editorial board
• Broad range of mathematical topics

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Research Symposium

2022 Research Symposium, Univ. ...

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