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Activities Sponsored by CWS
- Committee of Women in Statistics - Committee Meeting, August 28, 2008
- 2008 CWS Country Representative Meeting, August 27, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
- UN Commission on the Status of Women in Various UN and NGO Organized Sub-Meetings
- Indicators of the Status of Women and Children - CWS sponsored
invited paper session at the 56th Session of the ISI: Lisbon, Portugal
- 2005 Annual Report of the ISI Committee
on Women in Statistics
- Surveying
Women’s Issues. Report of invited
paper session at 2005 ISI in Sydney, Australia
- Female Statisticians
looking for greater stature, ISI Daily 3, Friday April 8, 2005, Sydney,
Australia, page 1
- 2005 ISI Business Meeting,
Committee on Women in Statistics, April 6, 2005, Sydney, Australia
- ISI Committee
on Women in Statistics, ISI Committee Matters, ISI Newsletter, February
2005
- 2004 Annual Report of the
ISI Committee on Women in Statistics
- 2003 ISI Business
Meeting, Committee on Women in Statistics, August, 2003, Berlin, Germany
- Women in Statistics: Where are We. Report
of invited paper at the IAOS conference on Statistics, Development,
and Human Rights, September, 2000, Montreux, Switzerland.
- The Role of Women in Statistics
in the New Millenium. Report
of session at the 1999 ISI in Helsinki, Finland.
ISI Committee on Women in Statistics report of
business and related actions
Thursday,
23 August, 11:45-13:15 pm
53rd Session
of the ISI, Seoul, Korea, 22-29 August 2001
Agenda:
1. Review progress and a resetting of goals
2. Discussion of membership/participation and what is being done/ what else
to do to improve it
3. Membership on the Committee
4. Discussion of recommendations to the ISI from the Characterization Report & the
membership analysis
5. Outreach to countries and region
6. Website management
7. Berlin CWS Invited Paper proposal
8. Country/regional correspondents/affiliates/representatives
9. Open Meeting
arrangements
For the full report
click here
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Women in Statistics: Where are We
This was the topic of an invited paper presented by CWS chair Beverley Carlson during the
IAOS conference on Statistics, Development and Human Rights which took place in Montreux,
Switzerland, in September 2000. The paper was part of a session on Gender Statistics and
Indicators of Women's Empowerment. In it, Ms.Carlson analyzed the participation of women
in the ISI and its Sections, reviewed women's standing in the academic profession -
particularly in the sciences - and discussed the limitations of statistics on women.
Women in the Statistics Profession: A Status Report , also prepared
by Ms.Carlson, appears in the International Statistical Review (2000), 68,3,339-352,
a publication of the ISI.
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The Role of women in Statistics in the New Millennium
This was the topic of an Invited Paper Meeting at the 52nd Session of the ISI in Helsinki on August 14, 1999. At the meeting, which was organized by the ISI Committee on Women in Statistics (CWS), six distinguished statisticians shared in the preparation, presentation and discussion of the papers. The papers, as well as the discussants' contributions to the meeting, are referenced in what follows. These PDF files can be accessed using Version 3.1 or higher of the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Professor Susan Wilson, of the Australian National University, and Professor Lynne Billard, of the University of Georgia, USA, presented a brief review of the careers of four outstanding women in the early history of statistical science and those of contemporary male colleagues.Their paper, Women in Statistical Science: An Historical Perspective, went on to look at the more recent picture, particularly that of women's current academic achievements and their status in the academic profession.
The second paper, Increasing Women's Participation in Statistics - Does it matter?, was given by Mr. Dennis Trewin of
the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the 1999-2001 president-elect
of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), who emphasized
the importance of diversity in the profession - with gender being
one of the dimensions of such diversity. Mr.Trewin cited several
factors that could be barriers to the increase of women's participation
in statistics and suggested means for overcoming those barriers.
In particular, women's low representation in the ISI could be remedied
if certain steps were taken to actively seek more members. His
answer to the question: "Does it matter?" in the title of his paper
is an unqualified Yes.
Discussants were: Dr.Barbara Bailar of the National Opinion Research Council (NORC) at the University of Chicago; Dr.Ivan Fellegi, chief statistician of Statistics Canada; and Dr. Pilar Martin-Guzman, head of the National Statistical Office of Spain.
Dr.Bailar (see Bailar's comments) pointed
out that women would find fewer barriers to employment and promotion
in United States government positions than in similar positions
elsewhere, and cited her own career advancement as an example.As
to "Why does it matter" to have more women in statistics, one reason
given by Dr.Bailar is the need for women to participate in the
official interpretation of data - particularly data about women
- and its subsequent use in formulating public policy.
Dr Fellegi (see Fellegi's comments) suggested that there might be a fifth barrier to increased participation of women in the statistical professions, in addition to the four mentioned by Mr.Trewin - namely, that of attitudinal or cultural differences.He described a study carried out by Statistics Canada in which it was observed that women were less likely to enter a competition for promotion to a higher grade than men, although success rates were reasonably high for those who did.However, some modifications in the competition process which seem to have encouraged more women to compete, subsequently had the effect of significant increases in their rates of promotion.
Dr.Martin-Guzman (see Martin-Guzman's comments) referred to the differences between men and women professionals cited by previous speakers and added other differences that she has observed, such as: women's having a stronger sense of service to the community than men, women's tendencey to be cooperative rather than authoritative, and women's tendency to have less ambition than men.She raised the question of whether such differences were gender characteristics or culturally imposed and whether, in the latter case, they might gradually disappear as cultural constraints on women's roles in society continue to weaken.
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