Communications of the ACM
Impostoritis: A Lifelong, but Treatable, Condition
Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College, says women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) sometimes feel like they don't belong.
Credit: Harvey Mudd College
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In the mid-’70s, I was a graduate student at the University of Alberta and attended my first mathematics conference. It was a special two-day session on the geometry of Banach spaces—truly fascinating stuff. Each speaker talked for 20 minutes followed by a 10-minute break when everyone in the (mostly male) audience chatted. Everyone except me because I knew no one—and worse, I was convinced that everyone could tell that I didn’t belong.
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