In the United States, Women's History Month is celebrated annually in March to celebrate women's contribution to events in history and contemporary society.
Check out the following resources for incorporating women's history into your mathematics classroom this month and year-round.
Free International Women's Day Resources & Toolkit
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender equality. Get involved in IWD 2026 with these free resources and toolkit.
Youth Voices: Women and Girls Shaping a Sustainable Future Through STEM
Tune the National Girls Collaborative Project on Saturday, March 21 at 6:00 p.m. CDT for a free webinar featuring a powerful panel of young women from its Youth Advisory Board. They will share their unique and vital perspectives on how STEM is central to solving urgent global problems. Register.
STEM Activities to Celebrate Women's History Month
This blog post from iD Tech spotlights the contributions of women to scientific, mathematical, and computing history. It includes 13 classroom activities celebrating women in STEM—hands-on activities to engage students with the journies and discoveries of women who changed STEM forever.
HerVision
HerVision, a Girl Scout Gold Award Project and nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering women in STEM, provides free education courses in coding, public speaking and hands-on STEM projects to students in Grades 1-12.
Girls in STEM: Inspiring the Next Generation Teacher Guide
This collection of resources from SubjectToClimate introduces students to inspiring women and girls in climate science, including youth advocates making a difference today. It also features climate-based STEM activities suitable for all grade levels. The guide inspires girls while giving teachers resources to show all students the impact women and girls are making.
Six Ways to Encourage and Inspire Girls in STEM in 2026
In this blog post from the National Girls Collaborative Project, senior researcher Amanda Sullivan shares six powerful (but simple!) ways to encourage and inspire girls in STEM. Each suggestion includes relevant resources to help you put the ideas into action right away.
IF/THEN® Collection
The IF/THEN® Collection is the largest free digital library of photos and videos celebrating contemporary women in STEM and their inspiring jobs. Content commissioned by IF/THEN® is featured on the Collection and designed for use both on and off screens, including 5,000+ digital assets for educational and noncommercial use.
Women in STEM Downloadable Poster Set
The National Women's History Museum offers free downloadable posters celebrating women who broke barriers to achieve success in STEM fields. These ten women—Elizabeth Blackwell, Antonia Novello, Chien-Shiung Wu, Helen Taussig, Edith Clarke, Katherine Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Bessie Coleman, Ellen Swalow Richards and Rachel Carson—represent medicine, physics, engineering, aviation, chemistry and biology. Their stories demonstrate the challenges of attaining professional success in traditionally male-dominated fields as well as their work to improve the lives of all Americans.
About the graphic
The graphic accompanying this story includes images of women in the mathematical sciences (clockwise from upper left): Hypatia, astronomer, philosopher and the earliest known woman mathematician; Katherine Johnson, human computer and one of NASA's "Hidden Figures"; Joy Buolamwini, AI researcher and "Poet of Code"; Maryam Mirzakhani, professor, mathematician and the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal; and Ada Lovelace, a mathematician and writer who is considered by many to be the world's first computer programmer.
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