The gender gap in mathematics persists, and widens the higher we look in the profession.  The gap becomes a chasm when we look at women from groups traditionally under-represented in the mathematical sciences.  This is a problem that affects our society in significant and long-lasting ways, since mathematics is the foundation of so many of our intellectual and scientific endeavors. Our project brings together educators, employers and policy makers to understand key factors that create these gaps, and to propose interventions that will help close them.  We look forward to hearing about your own experiences, and to benefit from your collective wisdom.

This video captures a vision of how women will help to increase the number of women in mathematics. It appears to have the involvement of numerous NSF projects and strategy covers most proven approaches. This INCLUDES projects parallels NSF’s Advance program. It was not clear to me how other NSF projects will benefit from this research. A social science researcher might be helpful.

It is great to see your project focus on getting women into mathematics! The video provides a nice synthesis of the aspects that support women in this. From the way the video ended you may still be working on the community hubs component, but I would be interested in hearing more about your thinking of this design, particularly the process of initial engagement with women who -- based on your initial results -- are likely to be scattered and dispersed in wide variety of non-mathematics spaces (for lack of a better term). And I would imagine that the need and level of personalized support indicated in your initial results has implications for this community design.

Love the focus of this project. I wasn't sure what stage of the project you are in. Are you at a point where you are beginning to identify possible components of a scalable model? If so, what are they? As you are interviewing women and looking at effective practices, do you see any institutions or math departments that seem to be doing a better job at creating supportive environments for women?  Have you looked at other disciplines that have similar problems with gender imbalance (physics, engineering, computer science) to see what approaches they are taking to supporting women in the field?  There might be some useful lessons.

This was fun to make, and I'm glad that this video is spreading awareness of the gender gap. I presented this in my math class, and it taught my classmates a lot about why majoring in math is a great idea. They all loved it! Thanks to all the contributors in making this video, and I hope that it will bring more undergraduates the motivation to major in math. 

(it's also nice that I edited this when I'm only in 7th grade)