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Association for Women in Mathematics
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting equal treatment and equal opportunity for women and girls in the mathematical sciences, and to encouraging women and girls to enter the field.
The Association was founded in 1971 as the Association of Women in Mathematics, but the name was changed almost immediately. It grew out of the the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlantic City in 1971, where a women's caucus was proposed. Mary Gray was the early organizer, placing an advertisement in the February 1971 Notices of the AMS, and writing the first issue of the AWM Newsletter that May. Early goals of the Association focused on equal pay for equal work, as well as equal consideration for admission to graduate school and support while there; for faculty appointments at all levels; for promotion and for tenure; for administrative appointments; and for government grants, positions on review and advisory panels and positions in professional organizations. 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ...
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