Recently I prepared an item for Rachel Levy's Grandma Got STEM blog that told a bit about my granddaughters who like math. My preparation for that posting led me to focus on my wish to have math be a fun place for girls to hang out -- a place for lots of girls: feminine girls, sporty girls, popular girls, silly girls (as well as geek girls). Mathematics has mostly been a lonely place for females -- my first girl-friend who was also a math person was a colleague whom I met in my 40s (see my poem for Toni, "Girl-Talk"). I want mathematics to be a welcoming place for my granddaughters. A place with friends.
Related to this concern, wonderful news came in my email box recently from Susanne Pumpluen (video) at the University of Nottingham. She has started a Women in Maths page on Facebook . There one can find bios, videos, news links and FRIENDS. Visit. LIKE. Offer your comments and support.
Showing posts with label think. Show all posts
Showing posts with label think. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Friday, November 23, 2012
Women Scientists in America
That
one,
Gray, is bold,
mathematical,
and female. One of the founders
(one-nine-seven-one) of the
Association for
Women in Mathematics and an attorney,
a leader of our struggle to get
well-meaning men to confront the
attitudes they inherited, to change -- so that "think
mathematically" does not mean the
same as "think
like a man." Mathematics has
myriad voices.
Awaken!
Hear all
of
us. a Fibonacci poem by JoAnne Growney
us. a Fibonacci poem by JoAnne Growney
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Monday, June 11, 2012
Think Like a Man
To publish mathematics,
a woman must learn to think
like a man, learn to write like
a man, to use only her
initials so reviewers
guess she's a man! Women must
masquerade, pretend man-think --
or can we build
new attitudes,
so all of us
have fair chances?! ("Square Attitudes" by JoAnne Growney)
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