Abstract
Women’s performance in mathematics is good, but their participation is not satisfactory in Sweden. Change over time has been slow (Grevholm, 1996a). In an effort to speed up the rate of change in the area of gender and mathematics a network “Women and mathematics” was created in 1990. The network builds on international and Swedish research results in mathematics in its efforts to influence important parts of society, teachers and students. An overview of such research will be given as a foundation for the description and analysis of the work of the network. A philosophy of critical mathematics education serves as theoretical framework and the network is seen as an intervention project. Criteria for evaluating intervention projects will be used in the discussion of the effects of the network. The claim is that Women and mathematics is one possible efficient way to implement research results in order to create actions in mathematics teaching.
