Women in Mathematics

Here are a collection of websites devoted to the history and biographies of women in mathematics.

BIOGRAPHIES OF WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS

Agnes Scott College Biographies of Women Mathematicians
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
Biographies of Black Women in Mathematics  (SUNY Buffalo)
University of Oregon

GENDER ISSUES IN MATHEMATICS

GENDER AND MATHEMATICS: WHAT IS KNOWN AND WHAT DO I WISH WAS KNOWN?  by Elizabeth Fennema

RESPONSES TO SUMMERS

This Web site maintained by the University of Oregon is a collection of links to responses to the remarks made by Harvard President Lawrence Summers about why there are so few women in science.

SELECTED BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS OR GENDER ISSUES
 

	Women in Mathematics: Scaling the Heights, Deborah Nolan, Editor, published by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The MAA's catalog contains this description: "Taken as a whole, the volume offers both a discussion of undergraduate mathematical experiences and attitudes and a number of stimulating ideas about how to enable gifted undergraduates to understand more fully the mathematics enterprise as it is practiced by mathematicians." See the MAA's on-line review of the book.
	Julia, A Life in Mathematics by Constance Reid, published by the MAA. The catalog description says. "Julia is the story of the life of Julia Bowman Robinson, the gifted and highly original mathematician who during her lifetime was recognized in ways that no other woman mathematician had been recognized up to that time. In 1976 she became the first woman mathematician elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1983 the first woman elected president of the American Mathematical Society." There is an on-line review provided by the MAA.
	Women in Mathematics : The Addition of Difference (Race, Gender and Science), by Claudia Henrion, published by Indiana University Press, (August 1997). According to an on-line review of the book "Henrion states that her original task was "to convey the stories of women in mathematics." But as she progressed in the work, her focus became twofold: "(1) to describe central components of the ideology of the mathematics community, and (2) to look at the impact of this ideology on women."
	She Does Math, edited by Marla Parker, published by MAA. "She Does Math is a collection of short career histories of women whose professions require mathematics to one degree or another. Following each article are problems submitted by the women profiled. These are meant to give a taste of mathematical aspects of the work that they do and of the mathematical problems that they need to solve." From the MAA's on-line review of the book.