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Abstract:
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Although men and women work side-by-side, tackling the same problems, sitting through the same meetings, women continue to encounter more challenges compared to men when it comes to advancing in the workplace. For example, women statisticians still make up only a small percentage of faculty members at universities, and they are substantially underrepresented in organizational leadership and as recipients of professional awards. Given the continuing intractability of gender equity problems, there is a pressing need for our professional organizations to find additional ways to support gender equity. One idea is to think bigger, that is creating partnerships to tackle some of the leading but seemingly intractable problems that women statisticians have been facing. Our table will take first steps to articulate and prioritize some of these problems that might best be tackled by inter-association partnerships. The results of our discussions will feed into the work of a new Council of Organizational Leaders (COOL), organized by the CWS, with a mission to incubate ideas and develop strategic plans for action that would help to create and sustain gender equity for women in the profession.
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