Just this last week we saw this systemic sexism play out on a university level. A Brigham Young University math club posted a flyer publicizing details of a panel discussion. The club is called Women in Math, and the flyer featured pictures of the four panelists, who were all male.
The flyer in fact highlighted the fundamental problem – there aren’t many female math professors at BYU. Specifically, out of 37 permanent faculty members, two are women. That is 5 percent. The Women in Math club couldn’t even host a panel of four female permanent faculty members if it wanted to.