Let's talk about "Women in math"! with Olga Paris-Romaskevich

This episode is about women in math, from the perspective of sociology! Many thanks to Olga Paris-Romaskevich for the conversation. Olga's webpage: The book "Matheuses": Here is a link for Olga's talk on gender and mathematics: 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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Let's talk about "Women in math"! with Olga Paris-Romaskevich is an episode from Math-Life Balance by Mura Yakerson.

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This episode was published on Feb 23, 2026.

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