Location
University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
Document Type
Poster (UR Campus Access Only)
Description
With the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment arriving later this year, and as women continue working to break through glass ceilings in academia, government, and industry, looking to the past helps provide inspiration for members of today’s mathematical community to support female students and colleagues. Though its yearly total enrollment never surpassed 640 students in its first 55 years of existence, Bryn Mawr College awarded more mathematics PhDs to women from 1885–1940 than all but two other American institutions. Together, administrators M. Carey Thomas and Marion Edwards Park and mathematicians Charlotte Angas Scott and Anna Pell Wheeler, in their efforts to support women, advanced mathematics and advanced the women around them. An exploration of the existing scholarly body and archival work at Bryn Mawr College and the Library of Congress revealed several common, timeless ways in which these four women helped create a haven for mathematics at Bryn Mawr. These women’s efforts remain relevant today as we continue working towards gender equity in mathematics.
Bryn Mawr College, 1885–1940: "Mathematics on its mind"
University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
With the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment arriving later this year, and as women continue working to break through glass ceilings in academia, government, and industry, looking to the past helps provide inspiration for members of today’s mathematical community to support female students and colleagues. Though its yearly total enrollment never surpassed 640 students in its first 55 years of existence, Bryn Mawr College awarded more mathematics PhDs to women from 1885–1940 than all but two other American institutions. Together, administrators M. Carey Thomas and Marion Edwards Park and mathematicians Charlotte Angas Scott and Anna Pell Wheeler, in their efforts to support women, advanced mathematics and advanced the women around them. An exploration of the existing scholarly body and archival work at Bryn Mawr College and the Library of Congress revealed several common, timeless ways in which these four women helped create a haven for mathematics at Bryn Mawr. These women’s efforts remain relevant today as we continue working towards gender equity in mathematics.
Comments
Department: Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Della Dumbaugh