EWM in Portugal, 2018-2020

14 Aug 2020

Written by: Marisa Mohr

2018 – Meetings at Universidade do Porto between Sofia Castro, Catarina Lucas and Luísa Castro for discussion of EWM – Portugal aims and future proposals
2018, December – The article “Women mathematicians in Portugal: a portrait”1 from Sofia Castro (Universidade do Porto) and Margarida Mendes Lopes (Universidade de Lisboa) describing the gender balance in the Portuguese mathematical scientific community.
2019 – Promotion, information management and discussion in the Facebook group of Portuguese mathematical women, in particular, dissemination of events, awards, scholarships and courses in the area of Mathematics.
2019, July – The 1st Meeting for women mathematicians in Portugal (WM2) took place at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The conference aimed to cover the diversity of interests of Portuguese women mathematicians. It was an opportunity to share different experiences and allowed to develop a more supportive community that can inspire future women mathematicians. It was organized into Plenary and Contributed Talks, and a Panel discussion on the gender gap situation in Mathematics.