Basic facts:

• about 25% of active mathematicians working at the Mathematical Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences are female (10 women)
• about 40% of mathematicians working as university lecturers at 10 universities in Slovakia are female (about 200 women)
• about 40% of leading positions in the boards of 2 existing Slovak professional mathematical societies – Union of Slovak Mathematician and Physicists, and Slovak Mathematical Society – are female (9 women)
• 9 women mathematician are among 23 members of the steering committees of Slovak Mathematical Society (with 160 members)

Currently there are no special committees or members of steering committees within either of the above two professional organisations that are responsible for promoting women in mathematics or the agenda related to these issues.

The Slovak Society for Geometry and Graphics is a non-profit professional scientific organisation aimed to stimulate scientific development in the field of geometry and computer graphics, to support young scientists in these disciplines, and to enhance the quality of geometry and graphics education at all levels. It has about 40 members, and 30 of them are women. This society plans to organize, using its own funds, a special event for women in mathematics:

• Seminar Women in Geometry and Geometric Modelling, October 16-18, 2013, Kočovce, Educational Centre of Slovak University of Technology

Within the seminar, information about EWM organisation and its activities will be presented and possibility of individual membership will be promoted.

As a national coordinator for Slovakia I have addressed all women mathematicians who have an e-mail contact available on their web-pages and informed them about EWM and its activities, and invited them to participate at the initial meeting held at the Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. About 15 of the contacted women showed interest and 9 participated at the organised meeting. We have agreed on the date of the planned Seminar in October and in the meantime we will try to encourage more women mathematicians to come and attend this event. During the seminar we will discuss possibilities and ideas of how to continue in order to promote gender awareness among the Slovak mathematical community, as so far it remains neglectful towards gender problems.

In December 2013, during the annual meeting of Slovak mathematicians that is regularly organised by the Union of Slovak Mathematicians and Physicists we will bring to discussion the topic of the possible establishment of a special board within this professional society that could focus on encouraging more women into mathematics and the special needs of women mathematicians and their promotion. Information about EWM will be also provided here for all participants in order to foster interest of women to participate in EWM and benefit from its activities.

So far, there are no other activities related to EWM in Slovakia, and we can count no members. We are hopeful that some might appear during the seminar in October 2013.