About the blog

 

The idea to try and provide European women mathematicians with a meeting point between the two EWM meetings, was born at the EWM Cambridge meeting. The European Mathematical Society Committee Women and Mathematics launched the blog on September 12, 2007, with a wish to put this idea into work.

We are doing our best to publish the materials as regularly as possible. Of course, people are more than welcome to leave their comments. (Unfortunately, this opportunity has not been very much exploited.) So far we have published various materials : statistical data, reports on past activities of the Committee, materials about EWM; we have also started a gallery of portraits of living women mathematicians, each of whom is introduced by one of her women colleagues.

We believe that the role models are very important. It is important to give people a chance to see that women mathematicians are common human beings, who happen to work on interesting projects, who come from various places (with different backgrounds), speak different languages.

It seems now that the blog will survive (the statistics looks better and better), and that we are making a community.

The first steps have been made, but we are still at the very beginning, and we need all the support we can get.

WE NEED CONTRIBUTORS !!!

There are technical possibilities, which we have not used yet, to have several editors, who can do the editing on line. Contributors can make their contributions on line, as well. The contributions get to be published after the approval of one of the editors. Hopefully, we will use these possibilities in the near future. (For the moment we have two editors: S.Paycha and D. Perisic, and one contributor Marjo Lipponen)

EWM mail network and the EWM website were of a great help in the first step of our blog. The web page of EWM (Marjo Lipponen has been taking care of it for six years), EWM mail network (Elizabeth Baldwin is in charge of it), and the Committee weblog are complementary ways to keep in touch, and the people behind the projects work as a team.