ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I discuss the ideas in a book that I think has major implications for how we can encourage girls and women to pursue mathematics and mathematicsrelated careers.1 Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind, by Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McViker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule (1986), explores how women come to know. After briefly summarizing the major ideas in the book, I will discuss implications for the teaching of mathematics, and raise issues which I think would benefit from further research.
