The number of women working in advanced mathematics is notoriously woeful, and now a university in Australia is taking an unusual step to help fix the problem.
The University of Melbourne is currently advertising three full-time jobs in the School of Mathematics and Statistics — but only women need apply.
The positions, in applied mathematics, pure mathematics and statistics, are available only to females as part of a university plan to increase the number of women in its workforce.
It’s definitely a strategy worth trying: Only around 22.1 percent of full-time Australian academics in mathematics are female, according to Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE). The University of Melbourne is part of the SAGE pilot, which aims to overhaul gender equity practices in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Read more…
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