See
also:
Sites: - Women-Related Science/Technology Sites *Cool Site* - Extensive and frequently updated,
Includes articles, sites, and projects concerned with information technology
- Conflict Training
for Healthcare Professionals - Dr. Judith Briles site provides information
on her work as an expert on conflict and sabotage in female dominated workplaces.
- The
Daphne Jackson Trust - Enables high-level scientists and engineers to return
to their professions after a career break.
- Engineer
Girl - Site intended for girls that highlights opportunities in engineering
careers in the United States. Includes links, profiles of women engineers, and
interactive features.
- Equal Opportunities: Athena Report and Action Plan
- About University of Oxford efforts to increase the representation of women scientists.
- FWE - Forum for
Women Entrepreneurs - Entrepreneurial organization for women founding and
building high-growth technology and life science companies.
- Gender,
Science, and Technology Gateway - Global web portal presented by the UN Commission
on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD). Resources, publications, and
policy recommendations pertaining to sustainable development.
- GirlGeeks - Career site for women in information
technology, providing access to jobs, mentors, training and career development
resources to help techy women get ahead.
- Global Alliance for Diversifying the Science and Engineering
Workforce - United State government initiative for increasing the participation
of women in the science and engineering workforce worldwide and supporting other
underrepresented groups. Events, eports, projects, profiles of prominent women,
and links.
- The
Hypatia Institute - Dedicated to gender equity in physics, astronomy, and
the sciences in general; with resources for students, teachers, and scientists.
- Institute For Women
And Technology - Think tank for investigating how technology should be developed
for maximum accessibility and usefulness to women.
- Institute
for Women in Trades, Technology & Science - Dedicated to integrating women
into nontraditional careers by providing training/technical assistance to the
education system and employers.
- LazyGirl
Network - Experience the Internet the LazyGirl way. Participate in the growing
trend of geekgrrls exploring the realms of information technologies. Linux chix.
- Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award - Information
about an annual award recognizing an individual, program, or organization in the
United States that encourages the advancement of girls and women in science. The
award is sponsored by the Maria Mitchell Association.
- National Academy of Sciences - Committee on Women
in Science and Engineering - Serves as a national focus to advocate action
for increasing the participation of women in the science and engineering workforce.
- PDK Poster
Project - Project by Pam Kivelson that creates paintings and photography to
promote in women and girls an awareness and appreciation of science, mathematics,
and technology, with a focus on careers in those fields.
- Pi Zine - A paper zine published by women who
stand outside the social norm. Includes issue exerpts and publication information.
- PlanetGrrl - For and by women and grrls in the
UK in or interested in new media and technology and other grrl stuff.
-
Strategies of Inclusion: Gender and the Information
Society - European research project by 5 leading universities on current state
of women and ICTs, from use through careers to design.
- Tapping the Talent - An agenda for action for
business to increase the talent available to them by encouraging more young women
into science, engineering and technology.
- WITIA: Women in the Information Age - The Women
in the Information Age Project at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School
of Government (KSG) addresses gender issues and technology (including representation
in the development and use of today's key technologies). Professor Jane Foundation's
Kennedy School research draws together a representative collection of quality
sites which add value to this discussion.
- Women and
Girls Tech Up - Encourages women and girls and the organizations which serve
them to use technology to share ideas, opinions, support, creativity and political
action.
- Women and Science - An EU initiative for research
by, for, and about women. Part of the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base and Improving
the Human Research Potential programs.
- Women
in European Universities - The programme located at Münster University, Germany,
aims at assessing the professional status of women in academia and at analysing
the reasons for the under-representation in positions of authority in Universities.
Presentation of the participants, contact information, a timetable and documents
for download.
- Women
in Natural Resources - Magazine designed and written by and for women in forestry,
fisheries, wildlife, range, recreation, soils, and the environmental and social
sciences as they relate to natural resources.
- Women in Science - Encourages the access of women
to science, learning and the world of research.
- Women
in Science, Engineering and Technology - UK Government site promoting SET
(Science, Engineering and Technology) for women. To support women in fulfilling
and rewarding careers in higher education, industry and teaching,
-
Women in Technology
International - Provides visitors with news, career opportunities, articles
and information to empower women through technology.
- Women
in Technology Project - Vermont Technical College's project to encourage young
women in middle school and high school to study math, science and technology.
Lots of links.
- Women
in Weather - Providing a support structure for and opening communications
between women throughout the worldwide meteorological community, focusing on the
particular concerns of women.
- Women
Into Science and Technology - Aims to attract and retain women in mathematics
and science courses and careers through a multi-level activity and mentoring program.
- Women of NASA - Profiles, events, archives.
- Women on Women - A support group for women in
science.
- Women Who Walk Through Time - Exploring Earth
science with women scientists. Many of the resources are for girls and young women.
- Women-Related Science/Technology Email Lists -
Frequently-updated, annotated listing of women-related e-mail lists that focus
on science and/or technology.
- Women's
Initiatives Committee - The Women's Initiatives Committee of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) aims to assist AIChE in taking a leadership
role in promoting the entry, development and full participation of women in the
Institute and the profession.
- Why Are There So Few Women in Science? - Online
debates. Provides extensive background information and participant comments.
- Is the Glass Half Full? - Women in science. From
Scientific American.
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