NATIONAL MATHEMATICAL CONGRESS 2024
Interview with Leslie Ann Goldberg
I am a Professor of Theoretical Computer Science and Head of the Computer Science Department at Oxford. Gender issues are still important in this field – we still have only a small number of women on the faculty. I’m the first woman head of our department. I think the most important issue is balancing between protecting our young women – they should not be given excessive committee duties, since these are harmful to them – and promoting representation of women – it is good for the Department and for the University to have diverse voices heard. The first part (protecting members of minority groups from excessive citizenship duties) is often forgotten, and shouldn’t be.