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  1. Oct 11, 2024 · Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician who became (2014) the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal.

  2. Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician who worked in America and was the first woman to be awarded a Fields Medal. She worked in the geometry of Riemann surfaces. Skip to content

  3. Sep 7, 2017 · Maryam Mirzakhani was one of the greatest mathematicians of her generation. She made monumental contributions to the study of the dynamics and geometry of mathematical objects called Riemann...

    • Kasra Rafi
    • rafi@math.toronto.edu
    • 2017
  4. Only British men were allowed to vote to choose a government. This was unfair and lots of women protested to demand better rights. In 1918 women with property over the age of 30 were...

    • Women were already working. © IWM (Art.IWM ART 2271) Women in paid employment were not a new phenomenon in 1914. They made up a substantial part of the industrial workforce even before the First World War, although they were mainly concentrated in textile manufacture.
    • Women on the beat. wo members of the Women's Police Service comparing notes with a male police constable at Euston Station, London, 1918. © IWM (Q 31088)
    • All aboard the transport industry. © The rights holder (Art.IWM ART 2316) One of the areas of employment where new opportunities opened up for women was in transport.
    • The need for childcare increased. A fresh air school for workers children in the munitions township of Gretna Green. © IWM (Q 30567) For women with children who wanted – or needed – to take on paid work, childcare could be a problem.
  5. Britain's colonies sent over two and a half million men to fight for Britain during the war. India sent the most soldiers. At that time, India included both Pakistan and Bangladesh .

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  7. Overview. Suffrage in wartime. At the outbreak of the First World War, Emmeline Pankhurst suspended the activities of the Women's Social and Political Union and concentrated her efforts on helping the government recruit women into war work.

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