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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | The Hublic Sphere |Measuring the Gap: The Gender Problem in Mathematics
Description: Recorded February 14, 2022.
This podcast episode marks an important centenary: 100 years ago, in 1922, the trailblazing modern mathematician, Emmy Noether, was finally given a paid lectureship at the University of Göttingen in
Germany. Despite a formidable reputation in her field, Noether had been denied paid academic work due to her gender and her Jewish heritage. She is now rightly recognized as one of the greatest
mathematicians who ever lived, but she never really saw the rewards of her brilliance in her lifetime.
While conditions for women in STEM and academia have certainly improved since Noether’s day,
even now, in Europe, onl...