The Australian, 24 February 2016 by Tessa Ackerman. AMSI Director Professor Geoff Prince and the University of Western Australia’s Professor Cheryl Praeger have welcomed the recent appointment of four female maths professors at the University of Sydney as a step towards equality. Speaking in the Australian, Professor Prince said the news was not only a cause for celebration but a call to action. The second Australian woman appointed as a professor of mathematics after Hanna Neumann, Professor Praeger said the appointments gave women and girls something to aspire to and a sense a career at the level was possible. With women accounting for only 9 per cent of mathematics professorships across Australia in 2014, both agreed there was still a long way to go to achieve gender equality in mathematics. Read Article.
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