Quantifying and Documenting Inequity in PhD-granting Mathematical Sciences Departments in the United States
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| author | Buckmire, Ron Eaton, Carrie Diaz Hibdon, Jr., Joseph E. Kauba, Jakini Lewis, Drew Ortega, Omayra Pabón, José L. Roca, Rachel Vindas-Meléndez, Andrés R. |
| author_facet | Buckmire, Ron Eaton, Carrie Diaz Hibdon, Jr., Joseph E. Kauba, Jakini Lewis, Drew Ortega, Omayra Pabón, José L. Roca, Rachel Vindas-Meléndez, Andrés R. |
| contents | We provide an example of the application of quantitative techniques, tools, and topics from mathematics and data science to analyze the mathematics community itself in order to quantify and document inequity in our discipline. This work is a contribution to the new and growing interdisciplinary field recently termed "mathematics of Mathematics," or "MetaMath." Using data about PhD-granting institutions in the United States and publicly available funding data from the National Science Foundation, we highlight inequalities in departments at U.S. institutions of higher education that produce PhDs in the mathematical sciences. Specifically, we determine that a small fraction of mathematical sciences departments receive a large majority of federal funding awarded to support mathematics in the United States. Additionally, we identify the extent to which women faculty members are underrepresented in mathematical sciences PhD-granting institutions in the United States. We also show that this underrepresentation of women faculty is even more pronounced in departments that received more federal grant funding. |
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| spellingShingle | Quantifying and Documenting Inequity in PhD-granting Mathematical Sciences Departments in the United States Buckmire, Ron Eaton, Carrie Diaz Hibdon, Jr., Joseph E. Kauba, Jakini Lewis, Drew Ortega, Omayra Pabón, José L. Roca, Rachel Vindas-Meléndez, Andrés R. History and Overview 00-02, 00A35, 00A69, 97-01, 97A40 We provide an example of the application of quantitative techniques, tools, and topics from mathematics and data science to analyze the mathematics community itself in order to quantify and document inequity in our discipline. This work is a contribution to the new and growing interdisciplinary field recently termed "mathematics of Mathematics," or "MetaMath." Using data about PhD-granting institutions in the United States and publicly available funding data from the National Science Foundation, we highlight inequalities in departments at U.S. institutions of higher education that produce PhDs in the mathematical sciences. Specifically, we determine that a small fraction of mathematical sciences departments receive a large majority of federal funding awarded to support mathematics in the United States. Additionally, we identify the extent to which women faculty members are underrepresented in mathematical sciences PhD-granting institutions in the United States. We also show that this underrepresentation of women faculty is even more pronounced in departments that received more federal grant funding. |
| title | Quantifying and Documenting Inequity in PhD-granting Mathematical Sciences Departments in the United States |
| topic | History and Overview 00-02, 00A35, 00A69, 97-01, 97A40 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13750 |