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2012: The Working Committee for Women in Mathematics, Chinese Mathematical Society (WCWM-CMS) was founded; it is a national non-profit academic organization in which female mathematicians who are engaged in research, teaching, and applications of mathematics can share their scientific research through academic exchanges both in China and abroad ...
Multicultural Math: Hands-On Math Activities from Around the World (Scholastic, 1994) [10] Fear of Math: How to Get Over It and Get On With Your Life (Rutgers University Press, 1994) [11] The Multicultural Math Classroom: Bringing in the World (Heinemann, 1996) [12] Math Games and Activities from Around the World (Chicago Review Press, 1998) [13]
The association participates in political and strategic work to promote the role of women in mathematics and offers its members direct support. Its goals include encouraging women to study mathematics and providing visibility to women mathematicians. It is the "first and best known" of several organizations devoted to women in mathematics in ...
Every March, we celebrate women's contributions to history and present-day society with Women’s History Month. “Feminists in the 1970s critiqued the exclusion and lack of recognition of women ...
2. The day became Women's History Week in 1978. An education task force in Sonoma County, California kicked off Women's History Week in 1978 on March 8, International Women's Day, according to the ...
Louise Hay (1935–1989), founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics; Linda B. Hayden (born 1949), African-American mathematics educator and mathematical geoscientist known for mentorship of women and minorities; Ellen Hayes (1851–1930), American mathematician, astronomer, and political radical
The EDGE program is designed to offer comprehensive mentoring for women pursuing careers in the mathematical sciences. Activities are designed to provide ongoing support toward the academic development and research productivity at several critical stages, including entering graduate students, advanced graduate students, postdocs and early career mathematicians. [4]
Much of Gilmer's work has been in ethnomathematics; she was described as a "leader in the field" by Scott W. Williams, a mathematics professor at SUNY Buffalo. [9]An example of this research is when, based on fieldwork in New York and Baltimore, Gilmer and her assistants, 14-year-old Stephanie Desgrottes and teacher Mary Potter, observed and interviewed both hair stylists and customers in the ...