Once again, the good folks at the AMS inclusion/exclusion blog have posted their Round-Up of JMM 2020 Sessions on Issues of Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice. If you’re headed to the JMM in Denver in January 2020, check out some of these events.
At DINAMICS we understand the value of diversity statements for applications for academic positions. (That’s why we’re re-blogging so much about the recent letter by and AMS VP against them.)
Here’s a post from the AMS Graduate Student blog in support of diversity statements
As we wrote previously, there’s a letter you can sign in support of diversity statements. Since then, two other letters circulated, one calling for discussion (a familiar anti-inclusion dog whistle) and another outright against diversity statements. The amazing folks at QSIDE conducted a demographic analysis of the signatories of the three letters. The results probably won’t surprise you.
As a follow-up to our recent post about diverse leadership at SIAM, we are also excited that the AMS elections have resulted in diversity in the leadership, including:
A new award for women mathematicians in honor of Maryam Mirzakhani has been established recently: The Breakthrough Foundation’s Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize “for early-career women in math.”
Among her many honors, Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman awarded the Fields Medal. She passed away in July 2017 at the age of 40. See our post here about another award established in her honor.
Here at DINAMICS we love it when we see diversity in the leadership of mathematical societies. So, we were very excited when we heard about the new SIAM leaders:
Piper Harron has written a thought-provoking post about diversity statements for the inclusion/exclusion blog. ICYMI, here are some recent posts of our own about this.
The AMS’s e-Mentoring Network blog added a thought-provoking post about strategies for recruiting underrepresented mathematicians. It is based on the authors’ experience being recruited by a seemingly personal email message which made them “feel needed, valued, but most importantly seen“. The feeling changed when they found out that they received the exact same email message.
The AMS Blog on Math Blogs has posted an interview with Vrushali Bokil and Maeve McCarthy, two of the organizers of the AWM Moving Towards Action Workshop being held at JMM 2020 in Denver. The interview, posted here, includes a link to the list of resources and pre-readings for those who can’t participate. (Note that registration for the workshop is closed.) See also our previous post about this workshop.
Happy belated 100th birthday to Julia Robinson! “Robinson was the first woman to serve as president of the American Mathematical Society, and was also the first woman mathematician to be elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in 1975.” Read the AMS biography or her Wikipedia page for more information.
The AMS has posted two reports:
A quick scan of the data presented shows that fewer women are hired and women are paid less, which is disappointing, but not surprising. No data on race/ethnicity are presented.