Via the Protect Pure Maths Campaign, LMS President Ulrike Tillmann will be speaking at the Science and Technology Select Committee oral evidence session on Diversity in STEM today at 11am. She will address the chronic underrepresentation of women at every level of mathematics education, and talk about the challenges in tackling misconceptions of mathematics.
This additional call for evidence was in part prompted following the recent high-profile comments made to the Science and Technology Committee by Katharine Birbalsingh, Chair at Social Mobility Commission, and Headmistress at Michaela Community School, in which she spoke about girls not liking ‘hard maths’.
You can follow the session live here.
Further information about Project Pure Maths can be found here.