Organizations at MIT
- Girls Angle – A math club for girls
- Graduate Womxn at MIT (gwaMIT)
- Graduate Womxn in Physics
- Laureates and Leaders
- MEGA Women (Mechanical Engineering)
- MIT Women’s League
- Office of Graduate Education: Programs and resources for women
- Sloan Women in Management
- Society of Women Engineers
- Undergraduate Society for Women in Mathematics
- Women’s Technology Program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Women in Chemistry
- Womxn in Chemical Engineering
- Women in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Women in Nuclear Science
- Women in Course XII (Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences)
- HST Women’s Group
Career Resources
- American Mathematical Society: Employment Services
- Association for Women in Mathematics – Career Resources
- Booklet: “Mind and Hand and Health: A Healthy Living Guide for MIT Graduate Women, From MIT Graduate Women.”
- Building a research career
- 101 Ways to Use a Mathematics Degree
- CRA-W graduate school information guide
- Careers in Applied Mathematics: Options for STEM Majors
- Guide for Women in Tech — Scholarships, organizations, and other resources
- Maryville University’s Guide for Women in Mathematics: History, Scholarships, and Career Potential.
- National Science Foundation: Resources for Gender Equity in STEM Careers
- Women@NASA
- How to get grant funding
- Perspective from the smaller schools
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History: Resources for Women in Mathematics
- Tenure for Early Career
- Time management and family issues (pdf) (1999)
- The Mathematical Sciences in 2025
- MAA Career Profiles
Videos
- Journeys of Women in Mathematics (Youtube, 2018)
Articles
- “Why Are There So Few Women Mathematicians?” The Atlantic
- A documentary and a Bollywood film highlight two disparate paths in mathematics (2020)
- A Movement to Close the Gender Gap in Mathematics (2020)
- Women’s History Month from the Notices of the AMS (2018)
- SIAM News: Tribulations and Triumphs of Women in Mathematics (2018)
- ASU’s Erika Camacho wins prestigious presidential award for excellence (2018)
- Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering A 2017 statistical report published by the National Science Foundation (2018)
- 19 Women Leading Math and Physics (2017)
- Computational biology in the 21st century Bonnie Berger (2017)
- Interview with Sheela Devadas, winner of the 2015 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (2014)
- The Math Gap — MIT News Article – (2009)
- “Has the Women-in-Mathematics Problem Been Solved?” by Allyn Jackson (pdf) (2004)
- Oral History Transcript – Dr. Dorothy Weeks (1978)
- “15 Female Mathematicians Whose Accomplishments Add Up” Mental Floss
- “Maryam Mirzakhani’s Pioneering Mathematical Legacy” The New Yorker
- “Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize” Quanta Magazine
- Scholarships for Women, Math Scholarships for Women
- “How Julia Robinson helped define the limits of mathematical knowledge”Science News
Books
- Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: the pre-1940 PhD’s (2009)
- Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out (2008)
- Complexities: Women in Mathematics by Bettye Anne Case and Anne Leggett (2005)
- Women Becoming Mathematicians by Margaret Murray (2001)
- Angles of Reflection: A Memoir of Logic and a Mother’s Love by Joan Richards (2001)
- Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference by Claudia Henrion (1997)
- A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary by Ann Hibner Koblitz (1983)
- Women in Mathematics by Lynn Olsen (1975)