To propose, encourage and facilitate activities of the IMU or other bodies which would tend to increase the visibility of women in mathematics and lead to an increase in their representation in the community at all levels and in all parts of the world.
To promote international contacts between national and regional organisations for women in mathematics, in particular facilitating the building of networks at the regional or continental level.
To provide a website which is a repository of information for and about women in mathematics worldwide and to enable efficient communication among the international community of women mathematicians.
Suggestions for CWM News items can be sent to cwm.info@mathunion.org.
CWM News Archives can be found here.
As a result of the CWM 2021 call for Networks, Workshops and other Initiatives, six initiatives are being supported. See here.
The Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science was established by 9 International Unions, including IMU. Its purpose is to circulate information among its partners, and promote cooperation on initiatives between them.
The (preliminary) report of the 2017-2019 project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It ?" lead by CWM and funded by the International Council for Science (ICSU) can be found here.
CWM has established about 140 special correspondents worldwide, each of whom has the job of disseminating information received from CWM, and also of keeping CWM informed about activities or initiatives to be announced on this website. See their list here
CWM printers and flyers are available. The flyer is two sided and is designed to be folded along vertical lines into three. If you want to get a few copies to distribute at a mathematical event or for other display purposes, please contact your EWM country's ambassador.
Organizations for Women in Mathematics are listed in alphabetical order by country here. There are also trans-continental organizations for Africa (AWMA) and Europe (EWM). The USA based AWM has many international members.
There are many mathematical events held each year organised by and specifically aimed at women mathematicians. Here is a sample, listed with the most recent first. Please contact us with details of any relevant events, past or future, that you would like to suggest we add.
CWM random collection of photos of women mathematicians. Just to make you realise of how many women in mathematics there are, who have overcome the multitude of obstacles placed in their paths.
CWM organized a satellite meeting of ICM 2018 (WM)² World Meeting for Women in Mathematics. This meeting report summarizes the main activities. Abstracts of invited lectures, mathematical posters and posters relating to the general topic of women in mathematics can be found here. The book World Women in Mathematics 2018 (Proceedings of the First World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)² , Vol. 20, C. Araujo, G. Benkart, C. Praeger, B. Tanbay (Eds.) was published at the end of 2019 in the Association for Women in Mathematics Series (Springer).
CWM cooperates with the Organisation for Women in Science in the Developing World (OWSD). OWSD is one of the 11 partners of the Gender Gap in Science project.
“…is it really possible not to stretch out one’s hand, is it possible to refuse to help someone who is seeking knowledge and cannot help herself reach its source? After all, on woman’s road, when a woman wants to take a path other than the well-trodden one leading to marriage, so many difficulties pile up. I myself encountered many of these. Therefore I consider it my duty to destroy whatever obstacles I can in the paths of others. ”
Sofia Kovalevskaia (1850-1891)