In March 2016 we celebrated International Women’s Day 2016.
We’ll start with an image that says it all! Thank you Steve Lomax who shared this wonderful response to the task ‘Describe a mathematician’ from Mansfield Green E-ACT Academy.

Describing a mathematician – Mansfield Green E-ACT Academy

Some useful references on women in Mathematics:

• From the American Mathematical Society: Women Doing Mathematics. Note there is much information on this site. Women@NASA caught my eye.
• Plus Magazine have shared talks by female mathematicians: Happy International Women’s Day 2016
• The London Mathematical Society is actively addressing the issues facing women in mathematics: Women In Mathematics
• From The Association of Women in Mathematics: Profiles of Women in Mathematics
• European Women In Mathematics
• MIT highlight MIT Women in Mathematics

And for some History

• The excellent St Andrews site has information on female mathematicians
• From Nrich: Women in Mathematics
• From Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, pages to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics.
• From Wikipedia a list of women in mathematics
• Smithsonian.com: Five Historic Female Mathematicians You Should Know