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A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents’ Perspectives Lenore Blum Reprinted from AMS Notices, Vol. 38, No. 7, Sept. 1991, pp. 738-774.

 

 

Lenore Blum is a research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, and Letts-Villard Research Professor at Mills College, Oakland.

Contents

• Preface
• 1. How it was…
  • What we did … (In the beginning)
    • Atlantic City
    • Boston
    • Berkeley and me
  • The First Decade (1971-1981): Building the foundations, a time of many firsts
    • Mary Gray (1971-1973): The mother of us all
    • Alice Schafer (1973-1975): AWM Incorporated
    • Lenore Blum (1975-1978): Exploring new territory
      • Discrimination/Affirmative Action
    • Judy Roitman (1978-1981): A summing up
• 2. The Second Decade (1981-1991): A coming of age
  • Bhama Srinivasan (1981-1983): Noether Symposium, Speakers Bureau, Research vs. Education?
  • Linda Rothschild (1983-1985): A period of transition, The White House, A mathematical mentor
  • Linda Keen (1985-1987): Kovalevsky Symposium, Robinson Memorial, ICM-86
    • Gender, Mathematics and Science.
  • Rhonda Hughes (1987-1989): Acceptance by the Establishment, AMS Centennial, Travel Grants, Schafer Prize
    • Louise Hay Award.
  • Jill Mesirov (1989-1991): Looking outward, the Twentieth Anniversary
  • How things are … (An assessment)
• Where we’re going… (Hopes for the future)
  • Carol Wood (1991-1993): Looking into the crystal ball
• Acknowledgments and appreciation
• Postscript: The “trickle up” effect
• Endnotes

“A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents’ Perspectives,” by Lenore Blum.
Notices of the AMS 38(7), reprinted in AWM Newsletters 21(6) and 22(1)
Copyright ©1991, 2018 American Mathematical Society. Reprinted with permission.
Brought to you by the Association for Women in Mathematics.