Status of Women in Geography (SWIG) in the Southeastern Division

Women are represented on the SEDAAG Executive Board by Vice President Jennifer Rahn of Samford University, Amy Potter of Georgia Southern University as Treasurer, and Selima Sultana as Regional Councilor and Co-Editor of Southeastern Geographer. According to the current editorial team: "we are happy to report that during the past five years (2016-2020) the number (46 percent) of publications by women as first authors in Southeastern Geographer is above the gender distributions of current (2018) female faculty (34.6 percent) and closely matches that of female graduate students (47.5 percent) in college and university geography departments (AAG 2020). The previous informal meetings have been replaced with a funded modest continental breakfast buffet available to all who can rouse themselves at 7 AM. Since 2012, the SWIG breakfast has regularly drawn twenty to thirty women, and a few men. The wide range of participants includes full professors, Presidents and Executive Board members of SEDAAG, department chairs, graduate, and undergraduate students.