Mathematical women in the British Isles 1878–1940: using the Davis archive

Figures & data

Table 1 Student numbers at selected institutions in Britain

	1900/1		1910/11		1920/1		1934/5
No of full-time students	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women
Manchester	738	123	881	276	1425	581	1734	634
Cambridge	2830	296	3822	396	4759	428	5328	507
Oxford	2537	239	3114	328	3663	542	3953	876
Reading	33	73	128	117	214	335	293	322
Edinburgh	2119	235	2311	580	3084	1078	2437	915
Wales	778	475	899	476	1951	798	1968	750
UCL	295	167	512	162	1064	579	1348	795

Table 2 Numbers of female maths graduates 1890–1940 (with male figures in brackets)

Cambridge	London	Edinburgh	Glasgow	Aberdeen	Manchester	Oxford
806 (4977)	703 (1009)	123 (429)	108 (511)	86 (243)	83 (216)	80 (890)

Plot 1 Female maths graduates in England and Wales 1873–1940

Plot 2 Male and female maths graduates: England and Wales 1900–40