Showing posts with label think. Show all posts
Showing posts with label think. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Women in Maths -- on Facebook

     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. 

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      

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)