Global Gender Gap Index 2014: 12th

EWM activities

The German section of EWM currently has 50 members.

With the meeting in Aachen in April 2011, organized by Gabriele Nebe, Julia Hartmann and Eva Zerz (all from Aachen), regular German EWM meetings were re-established. The next meeting took place in Bielefeld in November 2012, organized by Barbara Baumeister (Bielefeld), Christine Bessenrodt (Hannover), Andrea Blunck (Hamburg), Evelyn Buckwar (Linz), and Barbara Gentz (Bielefeld). Since the EWM 16th General Meeting took place in Bonn in September 2013, the next German EWM meeting was postponed to this year. Ilka Agricola (Marburg) and Dorothea Strauer (Marburg) organized this meeting at Castle Rauischholzhausen near Marburg with a two-day scientific programme on 1–2 May 2015, see http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/%7Eagricola/rauisch2015/index.html .

The plenary talks were given by Verena Bögelein (Salzburg), Salma Kuhlmann (Konstanz), Reidun Twarock (York) and Gerlind Plonka-Hoch (Göttingen). With an additional 12 shorter talks and a poster session, the 55 registered participants enjoyed a broad and attractive programme. Since all participants were staying at Castle Rauischholzhausen, there was ample opportunity for discussions and strolls in the beautiful park surrounding the castle.

Our next meeting is planned for 2017. While the organizers have already been found, the date has not yet been fixed.

Overall situation of women in mathematics

Regarding the number of female professors in Mathematics in Germany, the map http://www2.iazd.uni-hannover.de/~bessen/FiM/Deutschlandkarte.html , provided and kept current by Christine Bessenrodt, shows that there are 10 universities in Germany with no female professor of Mathematics, and another 5 universites which have only non-tenured female professors, while a few universities have been quite successful in increasing the number of female professors at a high level.