AWM Bibliography

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Research relevant to women and girls in mathematics

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, (1996), 15(4). Special issue on gender.
Gilah Leder (1995), Educational Studies in Mathematics
Boaler, Jo. (1997), Experiencing school mathematics: Teaching styles, sex and setting. Buckingham, England: Open University Press.
Leone Burton, editor (1991). Gender and mathematics: An international perspective. London: Cassell.
Susan F. Chipman, Lorelie R. Brush, and Donna M. Wilson, editors (1985). Women and mathematics: Balancing the equation. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Elizabeth Fennema and Gilah C. Leder, editors (1990). Mathematics and gender. New York: Teachers College Press.
K. Friedman (1989). Mathematics and the gender gap: A meta-analysis of recent studies of sex differences in mathematical tasks, Review of Educational Research 59:185-213.
Goldstein, Haldane, and Mitchell (1990). Sex differences in visual-spatial ability: The role of performance factors, Memory and Cognition, 18(5):546-550. [ Special review. ]
B. Grevholm and G. Hanna, editors (1995). Gender and Mathematics Education: an ICMI Study in Stiftsgarden Akersberg, Hoor, Sweden 1993. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Nov/Dec 1996. ]
Katherine Connor, and Ellen J. Vargyas (1989). Gender Bias in Standardized Testing, The Proceedings of a Hearing co-sponsored by the National Commission on Testing and Public policy and the National Women's Law Center. Washington, DC: National Commission on Testing and Public Policy.
Connor, Katherine & Vargyas, Ellen. (1992). The legal implications of gender bias in standardized testing. Berkeley Women's Law Journal, Vol. 7.
Fennema, Elizabeth, Peterson, Penelope, Carpenter, Thomas, & Lubinski, Cheryl. (1990). Teachers' attributions and beliefs about girls, boys, and mathematics. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 21, 55-69.
Ferrini-Mundy, Joan. (1987). Spatial training for calculus students: Sex differences in achievement and in visualization ability. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 18(2), 126-140.
Mary Harris (1997). Common Threads: Women, Mathematics, and Work. Trentham Books Limited, Stoke-on-Trent, England. [ AWM Newsletter Review, May/Jun 1996. ]
Gila Hanna (1989). Mathematics achievement of girls and boys in grade eight: Results from twenty countries, Educational studies in Mathematics 20(2):225-232.
Janis E. Jacobs and Jacquelynne S. Eccles (1985). Gender differences in math ability: the impact of media reports on parent, Educational Researcher 14(3):20-25.
Linn, Marcia & Kessel, Cathy. (2001). Test bias. In Judith Worrell (Editor in Chief), Encyclopedia of women and gender (pp. 1129–1140). Academic Press.
Linn, Marcia & Kessel, Cathy. (2001). Gender differences in cognitive and educational performance. In Lynn Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cognitive science. New York: Macmillian.
Linn, Marcia & Kessel, Cathy. (1996). Success in mathematics: Increasing talent and gender diversity. In Alan Schoenfeld, Ed Dubinsky, & James Kaput (Eds.), Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education II (pp. 101-144). Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. Summarizes numerous studies relevant to mathematics and gender in college.
Marcia C. Linn and Anne C. Petersen (1985). Emergence and characterization of gender differences in spatial ability: A meta-analysis, Child Development 56:1479-1498.
Lustina, Michael J.; Aronson, Joshua; Good, Catherine; Keough, Kelli; and others. (1999). When white men can't do math: necessary and sufficient factors in stereotype threat. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 35(1), 29.
Leah P. McCoy (1994). Mathematical problem-solving processes of elementary male and female students, School Science and Mathematics 94(5):266-270.
M. A. Paludi and W. D. Bauer (1983). Goldberg revisited: What's in an author's name?, Sex Roles 9:387-390.
P. L. Peterson and Elizabeth Fennema (1985). Effective teaching, student engagement in classroom activities, and sex-related differences in learning mathematics, American Educational Research Journal 22:309-336.
V. Valian (1999). Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women. Cambridge: MIT Press. [ AWM Newsletter Review, May/Jun 1999. ]
L. Wilkerson and C. Marrett, editors (1985). Gender influences in classroom interaction. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
Willis, Sue. (1989). 'Real girls don't do maths': Gender and the construction of privilege. Geelong, Australia: Deakin University Press. A very readable monograph that describes the complexity of the problem of “girls and mathematics” and summarizes relevant research. Old, but a nice introduction to the subject.

Reports and Studies of Women and Girls in Science and Mathematics

Susan A. Ambrose, Kristin L. Dunkle, Barbara B. Lazarus, Indira Nair, and Deborah A. Harkus, editors. Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants . Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1997. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Nov/Dec 2000. ]
European Commission on Women and Science (ETAN). Science Policies in the European Union: Promoting Excellence Through Mainstreaming Gender Equality. Available at http://www.cordis.lu/improving/src/women_documents.htm. Gives statistics on women in science in the EU.
Ginther, Donna K. (2001 February). Does science discriminate against women?: Evidence from academia, 1973–97. Working paper 2001-2. Atlanta: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. (http//www.frbatlanta.org/publica/work_papers/wp01/wp0102.pdf).
Gila Hanna (1989). Mathematics achievement of girls and boys in grade eight: Results from twenty countries, Educational studies in Mathematics 20(2):225-232.
Jackson, Allyn. (1991). Top producers of women mathematics doctorates. Notices of the American Mathematical Society 38(7), 715-720. Old, so take with a grain of salt if you are looking for a graduate school.
Lewis, D. J. (1991). Mathematics and women: The undergraduate school and the pipeline. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 38(7), 721-723.
From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers, J. Scott Long, Editors; Panel for the Study of Gender Differences in Career Outcomes of Science and Engineering Ph.D.s, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, National Research Council. Available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5363.html?onpi_topnews_111301
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering. Who Will Do the Science of the Future? A Symposium on Careers of Women in Science National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2000. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Jul/Aug 2001. ]
G. Sonnert and G. Holton (1995). Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Jan/Feb 1997. ]
Sells, Lucy W. (1978). Mathematics: A critical filter. Science Teacher 45, 28-29. Results of the study that initiated the 1975 founding of the Math/Science Network.

Periodic Surveys and Primarily Statistical Reports

Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences gives annual statistics on mathematics Ph.D. production and employment. Statistics are given by gender and citizenship. Available at http://www.ams.org/careers-edu. For U.S. citizens, the percentage of women receiving Ph.D.s in mathematics reached an all-time high of 33% in 1999.
The Taulbee Survey gives annual statistics on Ph. D. production in computer science. Available at http://www.cra.org/statistics/.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress occurs every four years and gives information about precollege students’ coursetaking and achievement. Statistics are given by gender or by race/ethnicity, but not by gender and race/ethnicity. Available at http://www.nces.gov/naep.
J. A. Dossey, I. V. S. Mullis, M. M. Lindquist, and D. L. Chambers (1988). The mathematics report card. Are we measuring up? Princeton NJ: Educational Testing Service.
National Center for Education Statistics. (2000). Trends in educational equity of girls and women (NCES 2000-030). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/spider/webspider/2000030.shtml.
Dannenberg, Anne. (2001). Who’s lagging now?: Gender differences in secondary course enrollments. California Counts: Population Trends and Profiles 2(3). Public Policy Institute of California. Available at http://www.ppic.org. In California, more girls than boys are enrolled in mathematics course, but fewer girls are enrolled in computer science courses.
For more statistics on women in science, see the Association for Women in Science: http://www.awis.org/statistics/statistics.html.

Programs for women and girls

Keith, Sandra & Keith, Philip (Eds.). (1990). Proceedings of the National Conference on Women in Mathematics and the Sciences. Sandra Keith: St. Cloud, MN.

Biographies, autobiographies, interviews

Notices of the American Mathematical Society special issue on women in mathematics. 38(7).
Miriam P. Cooney, editor (1996). Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Claudia Henrion (1997). Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference (Race, Gender and Science). Indiana University Press. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Sep/Oct 1998. ]
Ann Hibner Koblitz (1993). A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (Lives of Women in Science). Rutgers Univ Press.
C. Morrow and T. Perl (1998) Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT:Greenwood Press. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Jan/Feb 1999. ]
M. Morse (1995). Women Changing Science: Voices from a Field in Transition, New York: Insight Books/Plenum Press. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Sep/Oct 1996. ]
S. Nasar (1998). A Beautiful Mind: A Life of John Forbes Nash, Jr. New York: Simon and Schuster. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Sep/Oct 1998. ]
Elga Wasserman (2000). The Door in the Dream. Conversations with eminent women in science. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press.

History

M. Dzielska (1996). Hypatia of Alexandria. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. [ AWM Newsletter Review, May/Jun 1996. ]
Gårding, Lars & Hörmander, Lars. (1985). Why is there no Nobel prize in mathematics? Mathematical Intelligencer 7(3), 73-74. The answer is not that Mittag-Leffler ran off with Nobel’s wife or mistress.
Mary W. Gray (1991). Association for Women in Mathematics - A Personal View, Mathematical Intelligencer 13:6-11.
Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, editors (1987). Women of Mathematics. New York: Greenwood Press.
Margaret Murray (2000). Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Noble, David. (1997). A world without women: The Christian clerical culture of western science. New York: Oxford University Press. Begins with some surprising facts about early Christianity and ends with the 1880 “Misogynist Dinner of the American Chemical Society.”
Teri Perl (1979). The Ladies Diaries or Women's Almanac 1704-1841, Historia Mathematics 6(1):36-53.
Teri Perl (1978). Math Equals: Biographies of Women Mathematicians+Related Activities, Addison-Wesley Pub Co.
H. M. Pycior, N. G. Slack, and P.G. Abir-Am (1996). Creative Couples in the Sciences. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Mar/Apr 1997. ]
J. Richards (2000). Angles of Reflection: Logic and a Mother's Love. New York: Freeman. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Sep/Oct 2000. ]
Margaret W. Rossiter (1995). Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Mar/Apr 1996. ]
Rossiter, Margaret. (1982). Women scientists in America: Struggles and strategies to 1940. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Rothman, Tony. (1989). Genius and biographers: The fictionalization of Evariste Galois. In Science à la Mode. Princeton University Press. http://godel.ph.utexas.edu/~tonyr/galois.html. E. T. Bell’s account of Galois’s last night and duel over a prostitute appears to be far from correct.
Schiebinger, Londa. (1989). The mind has no sex?: Women in the origins of modern science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. The title might suggest considerable overlap with Noble’s World Without Women. This is not the case. Schiebinger’s book concerns social institutions outside the clerically-dominated universities, such as salons and craft traditions, that supported women’s participation in science in Europe and the United Kingdom.
D. Sobel (2000). Galileo's Daughter. Penguin, New York, 2000[ AWM Newsletter Review, Sep/Oct 2001. ]

Guides for women in academe

Caplan, Paula. (1993). Lifting a ton of feathers: A woman's guide to surviving in the academic world. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Get Smart! [reviewed in AWM Newsletter]
E. Toth (1997). Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsyvania Press. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Mar/Apr 1998. ]
Kenschaft, Patricia. (Ed.). (1991). Winning women into mathematics. Mathematical Association of America. [reviewed in AWM Newsletter 1991, 21(4)]

Guides for improving academic equity

Kenschaft, Patricia. (Ed.). (1991). Winning women into mathematics. Mathematical Association of America. [reviewed in AWM Newsletter 1991, 21(4)]
Ginorio, Angela B. (1995). Warming the climate for women in academic science. Washington, DC: American Association of Colleges and Universities.
Sue V. Rosser (1990). Female-friendly science and applying women's studies methods and theories to attract students. New York: Pergamon Press.
Sandler, Bernice & Hall, Roberta. (1982). The classroom climate: A chilly one for women? Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges, Project on the Status and Education of Women.

Guides and Activities for Families and Teachers

P.C. Kenschaft (1997). Math Power: How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even If You Don't. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Jan/Feb 2000. ]
Teri Perl (1978). Math Equals: Biographies of Women Mathematicians+Related Activities, Addison-Wesley Pub Co.

Philosophy

Evelyn Fox Keller (1985). Reflections on gender and science. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Martin, Jane Roland. [reviewed in Nov-Dec 2001 AWM Newsletter]

Grants and fellowships

Association for Women in Science (1992). Grants at a Glance: A Directory of Financial Resources for Women in Science.

General

J. Hennessee (1999). Betty Friedan: Her Life. New York: Random House. [ AWM Newsletter Review, Sep/Oct 1999. ]
Miller, Casey & Swift, Kate. (1988). The handbook of nonsexist writing. New York: Harper & Row. [reviewed in AWM Newsletter 1990, 20(4).]
P. Sacks (1996). Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America. Chicago: Open Court. [ AWM Newsletter Review, May/Jun 1997. ]
E. Yourdon and J. Yourdon (1998). Time Bomb 2000. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. [ AWM Newsletter Review, May/Jun 1998. ]