{"id":3798,"date":"2016-05-19T18:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/19\/university-advertises-3-jobs-in-math-and-stats-but-only-for-women\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:01:56","slug":"university-advertises-3-jobs-in-math-and-stats-but-only-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/19\/university-advertises-3-jobs-in-math-and-stats-but-only-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"University advertises 3 jobs in math and stats … but only for women"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

The University of Melbourne is currently advertising three full-time jobs<\/a> in the\u00a0School of Mathematics and Statistics \u2014 but only women need apply.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s definitely a strategy worth trying:\u00a0<\/span>Only around 22.1 percent of full-time Australian academics in mathematics are female, according to <\/span>Science in Australia Gender Equity<\/a>\u00a0(SAGE). The University of Melbourne is part of the SAGE pilot, which aims to overhaul\u00a0<\/span>gender equity practices in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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