Change Is Possible
Subtitle: Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Published: September 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780821837481
Subjects: History of mathematics; Minorities in mathematics; General; Biography & Autobiography; Mathematics; Women in mathematics; Biography/Autobiography; Vocational guidance; Scientists - General; 20th century; History; United States
First sentence: We hired a woman in our department fifty years ago, but her students had trouble getting jobs.
Description: "Based on dozens of interviews and extensive historical research, this book relates stories about mathematicians who have defied stereotypes. It is spiced with interesting photographs. The five chapters about women provide insight into the nineteenth century, the mid-twentieth century, the early 1970s, the early 1990s, and 2004. Activists in many fields can take heart at the changes. The author documents trends from the rudimentary struggles simply to become professionals, to the freedom to be married without giving up a career entirely, to organizing to eliminate the most flagrant discrimination, to efforts to improve the daily treatment of women in the professional community, to widespread efforts toward true equity."--Jacket.