Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s

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More than 14 percent of the PhD’s awarded in the United States during the first four decades of the twentieth century went to women, a proportion not achieved again until the 1980s. Jeanne LaDuke reveal insights into the larger scientific and cultural communities in which these pioneering women lived and worked.

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