Understanding Underrepresentation: Women in Mathematics and Other Fields

Kessel, Cathy

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“…For example, the smallest gaps are found for mathematics and informatics (2%), and for engineering (4%), where the proportions of female applications are very low at both academic levels. However, a large gap is also problematic because it means that the proportion of female applications at the full professor level is still much lower than at the associate professor level, so that more time is still needed for female academics to become better represented at senior academic levels [44].…”

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The Italian University Habilitation and the Challenge of Increasing the Representation of Women in Academia

Pautasso

2015

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Abstract:Increasing the representation of women in academia is a priority challenge in higher education policy. This study uses data from the Italian University habilitation competition in 2012 to test whether this national, standardized and quantitative assessment of researchers contributed to improving the situation. The proportion of female applications (on the whole about 36%) was in many fields higher than the reported proportion of female University professors (27%, 2010), but lower than the proportion of female researchers (2010) in Italy (45% and 51% for researchers with and without a permanent position, respectively). There was still a gap between the proportion of female applications at the associate (on average 39%) and full professor level (29%). A similar gap was also present between scientific disciplines and the humanities. Average success rates of female applications (41.2%) were on the whole lower than those of male applications (43.9%), but in most fields these differences were not significant. Overall, it is generally much lower proportion of female applications rather than their lower success rate that perpetuates the low proportion of female academics in Italy. More effort is needed to support female researchers in choosing and pursuing an academic career.

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The Italian University Habilitation and the Challenge of Increasing the Representation of Women in Academia

Pautasso

2015

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“…Usually, a committee chooses between two to four mathematicians to receive the prize at the International Congress of Mathematics (ICM) (Fields medal, n.d.). Surprisingly or not, from 60 recipients from 1938 to 2018, only one woman, Maryam Mirzakhani, has received such an award (Kessel, 2014). In mathematical terms, less than 2% of Fields medalists are women.…”

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Dismantling the ‘All-Boys Club’ A Narrative of Contradictions Women Experience in PhD Mathematics Programs: A Freirean Approach

Pinheiro

2021

INT ELECT J MATH ED

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Gender issues in mathematics education received fairly attention several decades ago, mainly because women and men performed differently, with men usually outperforming women. The research on such phenomena originated a series of studies on the so-called 'achievement-gap.' After many years of research on the achievement gap, such a gap has shown to have disappeared. However, recent studies have shown that there are fewer women who choose STEM-related fields than male peers. Suppose women are not choosing mathematics, but concomitantly research has pointed out that women and men have similar mathematics capabilities; why are women disproportionately part of the field? Since current statistics show that 90-95% of doctoral mathematics students are men, this study examines why school mathematics is still a male-dominant field. The data presented in this paper was collected using life-story interviews. Freirean methodology was used to analyze the contradictions in women's PhD student experiences. The findings point to contradictions in women's experiences in mathematics regarding success and challenges women have faced in mathematics and are discussed in depth in the findings and discussion sections of this paper.

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Women in Mathematics: Change, Inertia, Stratification, Segregation

Kessel

2015

Advancing Women in Science

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Understanding Underrepresentation: Women in Mathematics and Other Fields

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

The Italian University Habilitation and the Challenge of Increasing the Representation of Women in Academia

The Italian University Habilitation and the Challenge of Increasing the Representation of Women in Academia

Dismantling the ‘All-Boys Club’ A Narrative of Contradictions Women Experience in PhD Mathematics Programs: A Freirean Approach

Women in Mathematics: Change, Inertia, Stratification, Segregation

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