Laila Soueif is a Professor of Mathematics at Cairo University and a founder of the March 9 Movement for University Autonomy in Egypt. See more information about her here.
Signatories of the call ask their colleagues as well as mathematical societies to support her and her children by writing to relevant authorities. See more here.
Scientists around the world have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Women are hit particularly hard, especially those at an early stage of their careers.
The Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science calls for all individuals and institutions engaged in science to join forces in supporting women colleagues whose research careers are jeopardized by the pandemic. See here.
In order to promote gender equality in science, nine international organizations who took part in the project A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It? wish to act together to further promote this goal by continuing and enlarging the work accomplished so far, in particular by supporting women and girls’ equal access to science education, fostering equal opportunity and treatment for females in their careers.
An article by Marie-Françoise Roy, former chair of CWM, entitled "Building a Worldwide Community of Women Mathematicians", describes the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)² as one of the main initiatives of CWM. The article has been published in Notices of AMS (March 2023), and can be found here.
IMU CWM lead the project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences:
How to Measure It, How to Reduce It ?" funded by the International Science Council (ISC), in cooperation with IUPAC.
The project website, with a summary, up to date news and information, is here.
The Gender Gap in Science Book can be found here. It can also be ordered as a printed book through many retailers worldwide.
A 20-min film created by the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics, filmed and edited by Micro-Documentaries, made possible by a grant from the Simons Foundation. It is in particular featured on the Scientific American Roots of Unity Blog.
Remember Maryam Mirzakhani (RMM) is an exhibition with 18 original posters. Institutions interested in hosting the exhibition can consult the rules of use and contact CWM at exhibition-cwm@mathunion.org. The exhibition opened at the (WM)², the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, and remained open during ICM 2018.
Professor Susan Scott of the Australian National University was one of four scientists — and the first female physicist — to be awarded Australia's top science prize for their pioneering work discovering gravitational waves opening a new window to the universe.
She shares the $250,000 Prime Minister's Prize for Science with David Blair, of the University of Western Australia (UWA), Peter Veitch of the University of Adelaide, and David McClelland of the Australian National University.