History
The Association was founded in 1971 as the Association of Women Mathematicians, but the name was changed almost immediately. It grew out of the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlantic City in 1971, where a women's caucus was proposed. Mary W. Gray was the early organizer, placing an advertisement in the February 1971 Notices of the AMS, and writing the first issue of the AWM Newsletter that May. Early goals of the Association focused on equal pay for equal work, as well as equal consideration for admission to graduate school and support while there; for faculty appointments at all levels; for promotion and for tenure; for administrative appointments; and for government grants, positions on review and advisory panels and positions in professional organizations. The AWM holds an annual meeting at the Joint Mathematics Meetings.
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