In 2016-17 the department's Executive Committee worked to assess the climate for female graduate students, in particular by holding a discussion forum with a female scientist from outside the department who afterwards met with the Executive Committee to discuss problems and recommendations.
In 2017-18 the mandatory teaching meeting for all GEs included a discussion of diversity issues within the department and a suggestion of best practices for being a good citizen when it comes to diversity in STEM-related fields. In 2018-19 we held this meeting for only the incoming GEs, with some brief reminders at the all-GE meeting.
In response to some of the difficulties reported by female GTFs, in 2017-18 we adopted a revision of the qualifying procedures for our PhD program.
In 2018-19 we will be working on other changes to the first two years of the program which we believe will make the program more appealing to under-represented minorities.
For the past several years the Math Department has funded the local chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, which is run by our graduate students. Among other things, the AWM chapter brings women mathematicians to campus for undergraduate- and graduate-level talks each quarter, and the visiting mathematicians have a meeting with the graduate students to discuss life in the field, advice on career trajectories, and so forth. In 2017-18 our AWM chapter won a national award for some of their work.
Starting in 2018-19 we will be piloting a one-credit "Ethics and Diversity" course that will be required for all first-year graduate students. The course will focus on issues centered around professional success, and in particular including diversity issues.