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IOWME NEWSLETTER VOLUME 21, NUMBER 1, March 2007 Convenor of IOWME: Hilary Povey, UK Newsletter Editor: Heather Mendick, UK http://extra.shu.ac.uk/iowme/ International Organisation of Women and Mathematics Education An affiliate of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction For more about the ICME-11 conference see inside or go to the website: .mx/icme11/  Welcome to the first IOWME Newsletter of 2007 This is unbelievably my eighth newsletter. I used the word unbelievably because the production of each newsletter feels desperately precarious. Each time I have needed multiple emails, creative thinking, extended deadlines and lots of help from a few people who find the time to answer my emails (many thanks to all of them!!) and from Hilary. I have also had to trawl the internet and to write a lot of stuff myself. Reading through previous newsletters, it is clear that I am not the first newsletter editor to find myself in this situation. I am struck by what a large and diverse membership IOWME has. It is a shame that not enough members feel able to contribute so that the newsletters can better reflect this. So, I have three issues left till someone out there takes over so please help me to make these last three into truly fabulous newsletters! Send me items, long or short, ideas for covers, quotes, news or anything else to the addresses below: E-mail addresses: heathermendick@yahoo.co.uk or h.mendick@londonmet.ac.uk Postal address: Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB, England Best wishes, Heather One is not born, but becomes a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society: it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between, male and eunuch, which is described as feminine. (Simone de Beauvoir, 1949) The bicycle’s triumph … necessitates an androgynous outfit worn by its adepts o