Association for Women in Mathematics
- Association for Women in Mathematics
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting equal treatment and equal opportunity for women and girls in the mathematical sciences, and to encouraging them to enter this field.
History
The Association was founded in 1971 as the Association "of" Women in Mathematics, but the name was changed almost immediately. It grew out of the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlantic City in 1971, where a women's caucus was proposed. Mary W. Gray was the early organizer, placing an advertisement in the February 1971 Notices of the AMS, and writing the first issue of the "AWM Newsletter" that May. Early goals of the Association focused on equal pay for equal work, as well as equal consideration for admission to graduate school and support while there; for faculty appointments at all levels; for promotion and for tenure; for administrative appointments; and for government grants, positions on review and advisory panels and positions in professional organizations.
Presidents
* Mary W. Gray, 1971–1973
* Alice T. Schafer, 1973–1975
* Lenore Blum, 1975–1979
* Judith Roitman, 1979–1981
* Bhama Srinivasan, 1981–1983
* Linda P. Rothschild, 1983–1985
* Linda Keen, 1985–1987
* Rhonda J. Hughes, 1987–1989
* Jill P. Mesirov, 1989–1991
* Carol Wood, 1991–1993
* Cora Sadosky, 1993–1995
* Chuu-Lian Terng, 1995–1997
* Sylvia M. Wiegand, 1997–1999
* Jean E. Taylor, 1999–2001
* Suzanne Lenhart, 2001–2003
* Carolyn Gordon, 2003–2005
* Barbara Keyfitz, 2005–2007
* Cathy Kessel, 2007–2009
See also
* Noether Lecturer
* List of female mathematicians
External links
* [http://www.awm-math.org The AWM website]
* [http://www.awm-math.org/articles/notices/199107/blum/ A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents' Perspectives] – by Lenore Blum, from AMS Notices, Vol. 38, No. 7, Sept. 1991, pp. 738-774.
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