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Let's talk about "Women in math"! with Olga Paris-Romaskevich
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:01:15
Publish Date: 2026-02-23 03:00:00
Description:

This episode is about women in math, from the perspective of sociology! Many thanks to Olga Paris-Romaskevich for the conversation.


Olga's webpage: https://olga.pa-ro.net/


The book "Matheuses": https://www.insmi.cnrs.fr/fr/matheuses


Here is a link for Olga's talk on gender and mathematics: https://amubox.univ-amu.fr/s/SBRqbTLHSG5PFMF


Here is a list of references Olga used when spoke about social psychology:


1) Definition of social stereotype : (Leyens, Yzerbut, Schadron, 1994), slide 7

2) Stereotype threat result : Spencer, Steele, & Quinn (1999). Stereotype Threat and Women’s Math Performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35

Social psychology : stereotype threat, slides 9 and 10

3) Aronson, J., Lustina, M. J., Good, C., Keough, K., Steele, C. M., & Brown, J. (1999). When White men can't do math: Necessary and sufficient factors in stereotype threat. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35(1), 29–46.

4) pp.12-13 : John VS Jennifer study Moss-Racusin, Dovidio, Brescoll, Graham, & Handelsman (2012). PNAS, 109, 16474-16479

5) Begeny, C. T., Ryan, M. K., Moss-Racusin, C. A., & Ravetz, G. (2020). In some professions, women have become well represented, yet gender bias persists- Perpetuated by those who think it is not happening. Science advances, 6(26), eaba781


0:00 teaser

1:03 Olya's book about "math girls"

5:38 why there are so few women in math

9:01 brilliance as social construct

14:11 russian tease of women in math

18:05 math in the sociology book

22:35 why to make women only math events

30:33 and why we definitely need them

34:19 how to make a good outreach event

38:33 cool gender equity initiatives

41:12 Mura's experience in math as a girl

46:55 female role models in math

51:18 homage to Sophia Kovalevskaya

53:34 fun facts everyone should know!

58:56 moral support for women in math
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