March 8th 2017 is International Women’s Day.
We’ll start with an image I shared this time last year that I think still says it all! Thank you Steve Lomax who shared this wonderful response to the task ‘Describe a mathematician’ from 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.
• European Women In Mathematics
• MIT highlight MIT Women in Mathematics
• Follow @womeninmaths  the Women in Mathematics Committee of the London Mathematical Society (@LondMathSoc).

And for some History

• The excellent St Andrews site has information on female mathematicians. Look for example at Florence Nightingale, a pioneering statistician. Or Caroline Herschel perhaps less well known than brother William!
• 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