Progress of Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences (KWMS)

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Progress of Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences
(KWMS)
Wansoon Kim Korean Women in Mathematical
Sciences (KWMS) REPUBLIC OF KOREA
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• Status of Women in ST in Korea
• Supporting Women in ST in Korea
• Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences (KWMS)

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Status of Women in Korea

• Equal Employment Act (1987)
• The Childcare Act (1990 and 2003)
• Act on the Punishment of Sexual Assault Crimes
  and Protection of Victims (1993)
• Womens Development Act (1995)
• Act on Support of Women-Owned Business
  Enterprises (1999)
• Womens Development Act Agriculture and
  Fisheries (2001)
• Ministry of Gender Equality was set up in 2001.

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Status of Women in Korea

• To expand womens participation in various
  committees within the government (2006 target
  38),
• To promote equal employment in public enterprises
  (2006 target 30),
• To promote womens participation in the
  legislative body.
• To promote employment of female professors in
  public universities (2006 target 20)

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Supporting Women in ST

• WISE Women into Science and Engineering (KOSEF),
  2001.
• NIS-WIST the National Institute for Supporting
  Women in Science and Technology (MOST), 2005
• KOFWST Korean Federation of Womens Science and
  Technology Associations, 2003

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Enrollment in Mathematics (2006)

BA BA BA MA MA MA Doctorate Doctorate Doctorate
Total No. No. of Women of Women Total No. No. of Women of Women Total No. No. of Women of Women
12,426 7198 56 456 212 46 266 112 42
Faculty Faculty Faculty
Total No. No. of Women of Women
806 102 14
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Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences

• Founded in 2004 / 286 members/ 102 faculties /
  10 male members
• Voice for female mathematicians
• Less silence in face of discrimination
• Enhanced leadership diversity in academic and
  scientific institutions
• Enhanced fairness in competitive selection
• Learning to survive in competitive selection
• Advice and/or participation in government
  committees for making and reviewing policies

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Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences

• Newsletter, homepage
• Organizing annual conferences
• Workshops for networking and leadership
• Prizes and awards
• Travel grants to young woman scalars
• Careers services
• Outreach programs public lectures, mentoring 

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Changes

• Research collaboration
• More female executive board members in Korean
  Mathematical Society (KMS)
• Increased participation in KMS-sponsored
  activities
• Increased need for female mentors
• Increased employment of female mathematicians

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Future Tasks

• Develop programs to
• increase the presence of female faculties
• increase the success rate of female PhDs
• increase the level of recognition and the level
  of career satisfaction
• Network to
• learn successfully implemented programs
• support other womens mathematical societies

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Thank You for Your Support

• The AWM looks forward to collaborating with you
  to advance the participation of women in
  mathematics.
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  Carolyn Gordon
  Former President, AWM
• The EWM looks forward to establishing
  connections and exchanging ideas and suggestions
  to foster mathematical communication in a world
  that still seems to isolate women scholars.
  Laura Tedeschini-Lalli Former EWM
  Convenor

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Thank You

• KWMS
• http// www.kwms.or.kr
• NIS WIST
• http//www.wist.re.kr
• Ewha Womens University
• http//www.ewha.ac.kr
• UK resource center for women in science
  engineering technology 2nd UK-Korea Women in
  Science Forum