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Here are some print materials you might find interesting.
- Start your research by reviewing an annotated list of gender specific academic articles created by Jeffry Mallow and Richard Hake who are part of the Physics department at Indiana University. This two part listing provides links to comprehensive articles about women and gender and encompasses a wide range of subject matter. To review the contents of the collection, visit these links: Part 1, Part 2
- Career Profiles, from the Mathematical Association of America. An online resource with a wide variety of profiles of individuals with math-based careers ranging from biostatistician to professor.
- Careers That Count Opportunities in the Mathematical Sciences. Interviews with 10 contemporary women, whose pioneering research shaped the course of science in the 20th Century. Available from Association for Women in Mathematics.
- Encouraging Girls in Math and Science -- A set of 4 pamphlets by Dr. Patricia Campbell. One pamphlet, Math, Science and Your Daughter, is also available in Spanish. $6 for a set of one each of the English language pamphlets. $18 for sets of 25 of each individual title. WEEA Equity Resource Center, 800-225-3088
- Fear of Math, by Claudia Zaslavsky. Explodes the myth that women and minorities are not good at math. Includes a host oF methods, drawn from many cultures, for tackling real-world math problems. $13.45 from Rutgers University Press.
- Feisty Females, by K. Karp, E. T. Brown, L. Allen and C. Allen. The authors describe an unusual way to foster confidence in solving math problems with elementary grade students by integrating literature and mathematics. Heinemann. Portsmouth, NH.
- From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers, edited by J. Scott Long, National Research Council, looks at the differences in career outcomes between women and men, and between women of different races and ethnic backgrounds.
- Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women, by Catherine Thimmesh, Illustrated by Melissa Sweet. Houghton Mifflin, 2000. For people 8 and up. One of two books by Thimmesh on this list, Thimmesh bounces from Toll House cookies, to windshield wipers, to Kevlar, with random stops in between. Grace Hooper follows the inventor of the Snugli as we wander through surrounded by Sweet?s intelligent illustrations.
- In Code, a Mathematical Journey, by Sarah Flannery with David Flannery. This lovely young mathematician writes about her life and journey into the mathematics of cryptography ... and includes many puzzles for the reader to explore. Published in the US by Workman Publishing Company.
- Math Equals: Biographies of Women Mathematicians by Teri Perl. Biographies of nine women mathematicians from the 18th and l9th centuries demonstrate how mathematics can be fun and lead to an interesting career.
- Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries, Second Edition Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, 2001. May be read for free on-line or $15.96 if purchased on-line.
- Notable Women in Mathematics: Co-edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl. A collection of 59 biographies of women mathematicians, most of them contemporary. Published by Greenwood Press.
- Physics in Your Future, by Dinal Moche. This is out of print. Single copies available from the Math/Science Network.
- The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science by Elga Wasserman, Ph.D., 2000. May be read for free on-line or $19.96 if purchased on-line.
- The Scientist Within You,by Rebecca Lowe Warren and Mary H. Thompson. Experiments to do and biographies of distinguished women in science. Ages 8?13. ACI Publishing.
- The Sky?s the Limit: Stories of Discovery by Women and Girls, Catherine Thimmesh, Illustrated by Melissa Sweet. Houghton Mifflin, 2002. For people 8 and up. The second of two books by Thimmesh on this list, the reader meanders from Beatrix Potter past Donna Shirley to middle school young women, with the engaging text borne on the remarkable illustrations of Sweet.
- Unlocking the Clubhouse, by Jane Margolis and Allen Fisher, 2001, MIT Press, starts with the end point. What causes the astonishing gender gaps in computing fields? Their research produced a set of answers as to why girls start to lose interest in technology related science in middle school and why tech-minded young women flee CS in college, pinning male dominance in information technology directly to cultural, social, and educational patterns established in early childhood.
- Who Will Do the Science of the Future? A Symposium on Careers of Women in Science National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, National Research Council, 2000.
- Women and Numbers by Teri Perl. Biographies of thirteen 19th and 20th centuries women mathematicians tell us where their interests originated and what accomplishments put them "on the map" in their chosen fields. $15.95 from Wide World Publishing/TETRA.
- Women in Mathematics by Claudia Henrion. Comprehensive interviews with nine contemporary women mathematicians. Indiana University Press. Bloomington and Indianapolis.
- Women in Mathematics by Lynn M. Osen. Profiles of the lives and contributions of women mathematicians. $10.95 from the National Women's History Project.
- Women of Science: Righting the Record by G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes, eds. Scores of women whose important work formulated the tenets and precepts of astronomy, archeology, biology, etc.
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