books.google.com - 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. This book is the result of a study in which the authors identified all of the American women who earned PhD's in mathematics...http://books.google.com/books/about/Pioneering_Women_in_American_Mathematics.html?id=jUrq3bUvQlYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePioneering Women in American Mathematics
American Mathematical Soc., 2009 - Mathematics - 349 pages
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. This book is the result of a study in which the authors identified all of the American women who earned PhD's in mathematics before 1940, and collected extensive biographical and bibliographical information about each of them. --from publisher description
