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Can women learn mathematics just as well as men? Of course! Then why haven’t we heard of more women mathematicians (if we have heard of any)? The suspicion is that men didn’t want women to learn mathematics. Arguments have frequently been made that the evidence that women cannot excel at mathematics is that throughout history very few have. Have you ever heard anything so specious? The argument seems to be that since so many women have not become mathematicians, it establishes that women are unfit for mathematics.
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Nowlan, R.A. (2017). “Mathematics is a Genderless World” – Karen Uhlenbeck. In: Masters of Mathematics. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-893-8_7
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