tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963606970537776518.post2976571619362842671..comments2024-03-14T14:39:45.804-04:00Comments on Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics: Think Like a ManJoAnne Growneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04654717097635624079noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963606970537776518.post-77514586121004626352012-06-15T22:18:12.751-04:002012-06-15T22:18:12.751-04:00Many thanks for your comment.
A math journal edi...Many thanks for your comment. <br />A math journal editor shared with me her reaction to this blog-post as a concern that, if she encourages women to submit, the tough review process will discourage them. <br />I'm not sure what has happened to the "I can, I will" attitude. We women are smart and capable.<br />Besides, isn't publishing somewhat easy when compared to raising children -- and, even, grad school?JoAnne Growneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04654717097635624079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963606970537776518.post-35449382826986190182012-06-15T21:57:35.638-04:002012-06-15T21:57:35.638-04:00This is very interesting.
I was interviewed for...This is very interesting. <br /> <br />I was interviewed for the editorship of an MAA journal a few years back -- I won't say how many years or which journal. I do remember talking to the MAA secretary about the sheer male-ness of the current crop of editors. And she said that a big part of the problem is that they try to recruit partly from authors within the journals -- people who know the expository standards of the MAA. But most of the people who submit articles are men, not women. <br /> <br />This surprises me, because if you go entirely by stereotype, MAA journals would seem to be much more typically "female" -- paying attention to audience, motive, etc. just as much as to mathematics. At least, that's part of the self-selection kind of argument I often hear for why Liberal Arts colleges have a higher percentage of tenured female faculty than Research I institutions.<br /> <br />At any rate, I agree that there are biases keeping women's articles out of journals, but it surprises me the extent to which women themselves just refrain from jumping in. It's very, very hard for an editor to accept articles that were never submitted in the first place. I was really depressed after that talk with the Secretary..Miser Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01843021555128849804noreply@blogger.com