LibGuides: Women in STEMM: Mathematics

Recommended Books

Gender differences in mathematics : an integrative psychological approach
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) QA27.5 .G47 2005
An edited compilation exploring the psychosocial aspects of gender differences in mathematics ability/interest.
Women in mathematics: the addition of difference by Claudia Henrion
Call Number: Electronic Book
Towards gender equity in mathematics education : an ICMI study
Call Number: Electronic Book
She does math! : real-life problems from women on the job
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) QA27.5 .S53 1995
ISBN: 0883857022
Presents the career histories of 38 professional women describing how much math each took in high school and college, how she chose her field of study, and how she ended up in her current job. Each woman presents several problems typical of those she had to solve on the job using mathematics.
Women becoming mathematicians : creating a professional identity in post-World War II America by Margaret A.M. Murray
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) QA27.5 .M88 2000
The narrowing gender gap in mathematics : helping girls learn in upper elementary grades by Timothy B. Becka
Call Number: CARLSON Project Requirements (4th fl) Project Requirement 2006 B388
A 2006 Project Requirement for a Masters of Education degree.
Teaching middle school girls mathematics to encourage higher achievement by Anita J. Cornish
Call Number: CARLSON Project Requirements (4th fl) Project Requirement 2004 C816
A 2004 Project Requirement for a Masters of Education degree.

Biographies - Databases & Web Sites

Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive source of biographical information on more than 600,000 people. Contains substantive narrative profiles (about 3,000 words each) and links to full text articles as well as citations, abstracts and images from thousands of periodicals.

Women Mathematicians, Sponsored by Agnes Scott College
Here you can find biographical essays or comments on the women mathematicians profiled on this site, as well as additional resources about women in mathematics.
Distinguished Women of Past & Present: Mathematics
Listed chronologically.
Female Mathematicians
From the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
Who are the Black Women in the Mathematical Sciences
Less than 1% of all mathematicians are Black. 25% of these are women. This web page is dedicated to them and attempts to profile them all, from 1943 until today, as the information arrives.
Supplementary Material for: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's
Expanded version of 228 biographical entries from a book published by the American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society.
Women in Math: Biographies
A collective index by last name to biographies appearing on a variety of sites.

Biographies - Books

Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) QA28 .N68 1998
Change is possible : stories of women and minorities in mathematics
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) QA10.5 .K46 2005
The world of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God by Massimo Mazzotti
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) QA29.A28 M39 2007
To talk of many things : an autobiography by Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) HV2717.O55 A3 2004

Professional Organizations on Women in Mathematics

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
The purpose of the Association for Women in Mathematics is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.
The Committee for Women in Mathematics
A committee of the Canadian Mathematical Society, this site has links to several excellent educational resources.
European Women in Mathematics
European Women in Mathematics is an international association of women working in the field of mathematics.