Hats off to the American Mathematical Association for creating a poster entitled, "Women Doing Mathematics". It highlights the accomplishments of nine women and has a personal quote from each about their interest in Math.Print it out and put it up in your department, the library, the mall, your kid's school, etc. This is a great poster to have in circulation. If I was a young woman considering a career in STEM a poster like this would have far more reach than Computer Engineer Barbie.
What, no "girly" angle? Nothing about them also being cheerleading moms who love to cook and shop. It's just a list of women who do math.
ReplyDeleteThat is crazy.
/sarcasm
Heh. Actually, I was going to state how happy I was they didn't mention babies at all, but since this was primarily a kudos post I decided to leave it out.
ReplyDeleteThis looks awesome! I would like to see where they work though. University people are easily googlable, national lab and industry people not so much...
ReplyDeleteThat is really great! What a good idea.
ReplyDeleteThis is great! But I think they should have had representations of both industry AND academia instead of just academia.
ReplyDelete@GMP: Web link on the bottom: http://www.ams.org/women-mathematicians :), though it would be nice to have this on the printed posters too. (But the link does work from the pdf file).
ReplyDelete@Tara: Agreed - that would be nice!
Yeah, I kinda fired off that comment too soon (opened pdf, skimmed over bios, wrote the comment, noticed link, had a facepalm moment). Oh well. :)
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