The Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences (JCW),
founded in 1971 as a committee of the American Mathematical Society
(AMS), is now a joint committee of seven mathematical and statistical
societies: AMS, American Statistical Association (ASA), Association
for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(IMS), Mathematical Association of America (MAA), National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and the Society for Industrial and
Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The charge of JCW is "to identify some
of the disadvantages that women mathematicians now experience, and
recommend actions which those societies should take to alleviate
these disadvantages, as well as to document its recommendations and
actions by presenting data."