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ISI Committee
on Women in Statistics
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Links
- The International Statistical Institute (ISI), where women currently constitute a little under 10% of the membership, has been welcoming more women into its ranks in recent years.
- The International Association for
Statistical Education), a Section of the ISI, has the highest proportion of women in its membership (27%) among all five ISI Sections.
- The committee on Women in Statistics of the
American Statistical Association (COWIS) carries out a number of activities during the annual Joint Statistical Meetings. In 1998, 26.6% of the Association's members were women.
- The Caucus for Women in Statistics, a North American group of about 350 members, is an independent organization with strong links to the Committee on Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association and shares its aims of promoting the role of women in statistics.
- The National Academies of Sciences recently completed a study that examined how women in scientific fields are doing, relative to their male counterparts, at various stages in their academic careers. The report, “Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty,” can be ordered or skimmed at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12062
- The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), which was founded in 1971, has over 4000 women and men members world wide. The association issues bi-monthly newsletters, and its programs include lectures, workshops, travel grants and mentoring.
- The Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County was established in 1998 to "address and rectify women's under-representation in Information Technology" and to encourage research on the relationship between Information Technology and gender. Links to about 80 women-related sites in science, mathematics and technology, are listed. More information can be obtained by contacting the Center's director, Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc.edu).
- Brigitte Degen (Brigitte.DEGEN@cec.eu.int) is in charge of the statistics/indicator dossier of the Women and Science sector of the
European Commission Directorate General for Research.
- Papers presented at the 53rd Session of the ISI at Seoul in August 2001 are available at
isi2001@nso.go.kr
- Free Statistical Tools on the Web. An overview appeared in the ISI Newsletter, Volume 26, No.1 (76) 2002:
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