Those who want to inspire their daugthers to careers in mathematics, or at least encourage them not to be intimidated, need look no farther than a new site on the World Wide Web, Biographies of Women Mathematicians.
The site (http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm) features the biographies of more than 100 women mathematicians ranging from Florence Nightingale, who used statistical analysis techniques to prevent deaths during the Crimean War, to Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper, who invented Cobal, a computer-programming language.
Other new sites on the World Wide Web of interest to women include the following.
- The Juvenile Products Manufacturers (http://www.jpma.org), which offers information to consumers on baby safety, safe use and selection of juvenile products and safety information on car seats, cribs and more.
- The Women's Health America Group (http://www.womenshealth.com), which has a wide range of information on women's health issues and links to other resources.
- Five web sites devoted especially to breast cancer: the Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization (http://www.y-me.org), the Breast Cancer Network: Information (http://www.cancer.org/bcninfo.html), How To Be a Breast Cancer Detective (http://www.ppca.org/brcanc.html) and Bonnie Bedford's Breast Cancer Web Page (http://www.netrail.net/dginn/breastx.html).