Wacky Hermit
2008-06-05 11:44:46
I’m a former member of the MAA (Mathematical Association of America) but not for political reasons; I’m changing careers and membership was no longer necessary. But I was always uncomfortable with the focus on special programs for encouraging women in mathematics. Women get something like half the undergraduate degrees but end up as around 10% of the full-time tenure-track professors. I thought a better special program for encouraging women in mathematics would be the invention of part-time tenure track positions, but evidently that hadn’t occurred to anyone but me and some large finite number of female part-time adjunct professors.
