| Name | Description | URL | | Society of Women Engineers -- UMass Amherst | The UMass Amherst chapter of the Society of Women Engineers provides a community for UMass engineers and seeks to spread information about successful women in engineering and opportunities in the field.
| http://www.ecs.umass.edu/swe/ |
| Advocates for Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (AWSEM) | AWSEM offers classes, workshops, and apprenticeships to women and girls in science, engineering, mathematics and technology.
| http://www.saturdayacademy.org/ |
| Expect the best from a girl. That's what you'll get.-- Women's College Coalition | This website provides information on what parents can do to further involve their daughter in math and science at school, in future careers and to break habits that dissuade girls from entering math and science related fields. | http://www.academic.org/ |
| The Role Model Project for Girls -- WomensWork | This project is designed to link girls with female role models from a wide variety of professional careers, including high-tech fields, in order to expand a girl’s possible responses to the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?". This projec | http://www.womenswork.org/girls/ |
| Technology Integration: Using Technology as a tool for Education and Communication | This website provides a step-by-step plan, information and lesson plans on using the internet with elementary school students and students with disabilities. | http://www.lburkhart.com/ |
| Initiative of American Association of School Librarians (AASL) | This website is designed to get students, library media specialists and teachers connected to learning using the Internet. There are excellent curricular resources for teachers as well as free online courses and Internet training for all. | http://www.ala.org/ICONN/onlineco.html |
| National Association for the Advancement of Single Sex Public Education (NAASPE) | This site compiles information about the advantages of single sex education and cites studies showing girls in single sex classrooms or schools take more math, computer, and science courses. | http://www.singlesexschools.org/ |
| National Coalition of Girls Schools (NCGS) | NCGS is an association of girls' schools in US. This website describes their mission and the activities, research, and programs aimed at increasing girls' participation in engineering, science, and technology. | http://www.ncgs.org/ |
| Getting Girls Interested in Computers | This site contains hundreds of links on computer science and gender, tips for increasing girls' participation in computer science, and highlights from current research on women and girls in computer science. | http://math.rice.edu/%7Elanius/club/girls.html |
| Getting Girls Interested in Computer Science | This site contains hundreds of links on computer science and gender, tips for increasing girls' participation in computer science, and highlights from current research on women and girls in computer science. | http://math.rice.edu/%7Elanius/club/girls3.html |
| Closing the Equity Gap in Technology Access and Use: A Practical Guide for K-12 Educators | This site compiles strategies and resources for improving access and curriculum.
| http://www.netc.org/equity/ |
| American Society for Engineering Education EngineeringK12 Center | This site contains data about outreach programs, engineer profiles, links, and other resources about engineering. The site is specifically geared toward teachers and students. | http://www.engineeringk12.org/ |
| Barriers to Women in Academic Science and Engineering -- MIT | This website showcases an advanced academic study by a group of researchers from Columbia University, SUNY Purchase, and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. Qualitative and quantitative data were gathered in order to analyze how factors like soci | http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/EKNU.html |
| The Virtual Development Center (VDC) | The VDC “is a collaborative network of ten colleges and universities that draws technical and non-technical women, and their supporters, into technology by making the connection between technology creation and social impact” | http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/special-projects/past-projects-archive/vdc/ |
| Internet Classroom Assistant -- NiceNet | Attention women who are interested in free Internet-based learning! The ICA is a free service run by NiceNet which brings communication tools and resources previously available only to those with large sums of money or substantial technical expertise to | http://www.nicenet.org/ |
| Workplace Solutions -- Wider Opportunities for Women | The Workplace Solutions project provides information and assistance to women and employers to increase low-income women's access to high wage jobs in fields which are considered nontraditional (jobs in which women comprise less than 25 percent of the work | http://www.workplacesolutions.org/ |
| National Information Technology Education Alliance (NITEA) | National Information Technology Education Alliance, created by the Information Technology Association of America, works “to provide multiple opportunities on an annual basis for interchange between the IT employer community and the IT workforce, education | http://www.nitea.org/ |
| Trends for Women In Science and Technology (TWIST) | TWIST is an organization on the UMass Amherst campus that examines the participation of women in science and technology and tries to encourage women in the Five College area to enter the disciplines. | http://www.umass.edu/twist/index.html |
| Society of Women Engineers -- UMass Amherst | The UMass Amherst chapter of the Society of Women Engineers provides a community for UMass engineers and seeks to spread information about successful women in engineering and opportunities in the field.
| http://www.ecs.umass.edu/swe/ |
| Women in Science -- Amherst College | WIS at Amherst College increases awareness of the accomplishments of women in science and highlights opportunities on the Amherst campus for women to become more involved in the sciences. | http://www.amherst.edu/%7Ewis/ |
| United Nations WomenWatch | “WomenWatch is a central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system” | http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ |
| UNIFEM: Monitoring the Impact of Technological Changes on Women's Employment in the Asian Region | This project tries to give the women “who bear the consequences of the new technological and industrial policies” a voice in technological development. | http://www.unifem-eseasia.org/projects/techange.htm |
| The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Institute -- UMass, Amherst | | http://k12s.phast.umass.edu/stem/ |
| Picker Engineering Program - Smith College | The Picker Engineering Program at Smith College in Northampton , MA was the first engineering program in the United States at a women's college. This link is to the program's homepage. Of interest also is the Computer Science Program at Smith. | http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Engin/ |
| Women in Engineering and the Human Spirit | This is an editorial in the Progressive Engineer (2004) by Domenico Grasso, the Founding Director of the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College . The editorial reflects on Smith's accomplishments and how the college is diversifying the engineering fi | http://www.progressiveengineer.com/PEWebBackissues2004/PEWeb%2057%20Dec%2004-2/57editor.htm |
| Smith College Summer in Science & Engineering Program | This summer program brings high school students to the Smith College campus to participate in a month long summer science and engineering program. | http://www.smith.edu/summerprograms/ssep/ |
| Business Women's Network Interactive | BWNI.com's mission: "Providing women with the real tools for financial success." There is special attention on increasing women's access to the tools to use the Internet and E-Commerce to expand a business to the Information Age. | http://www.bwni.com/ |
| Digital Women | This website provides resources for women in business, women who own their businesses and women with home based businesses. Its goal is to help women across the globe to be able to find anything they need for their business and in turn help them on their | http://www.digital-women.com/ |
| Webgrrls International | Webgrrls provides a forum for women in or interested in new media to network, exchange business leads, teach and learn the skills needed to succeed in the technical workplace.
| http://www.webgrrls.com/ |
| Center for Women in Technology -- U of Maryland BC | This website contains links to hundreds of websites and programs aimed at Women and IT/CS | http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/ |
| Taulbee Survey -- CRA | Produced by the Computing Research Association, this survey provides information on enrollment, production, & employment of PhDs in CS & CE in North America. 1992-present | http://www.cra.org/statistics/ |
| Center for Women and Work -- Rutger's University | | http://www.cww.rutgers.edu/ |
| Women in High Tech Jobs | This is a Fact Sheet produced by the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau about the status of computer and engineering professions.
| http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/hitech02.htm |
| Women in the Labor Force: A Databook 2005 | This report, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, examines the increased participation of women in the labor force.
| http://www.bls.gov/cps/wlf-databook-2005.pdf |
| The Digital Workforce | This 1999 publication by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Technology Policy describes the changing, technology-driven US workforce.
| http://www.technology.gov/Reports/TechPolicy/digital.pdf |
| National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) | "NAPE is a consortium of state and local agencies, corporations, and national organizations that collaborate to create equitable and diverse classrooms and workplaces where there are no barriers to opportunities" | http://www.napequity.org/ |
| Achieving Gender Equity in Science Classrooms | This “guide for faculty” was compiled by women science students and science faculty and staff at NECUSE colleges and based upon initial work by students at brown university. (1996) | http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/homepginfo/equity/Equity_handbook.html |
| GoGirlsTech - Girl Scouts of the United States of America | | http://www.gogirlstech.org |
| Women-Related Science/Technology Email Lists | This site lists several women and science and technology-related email listservs | http://www.research.umbc.edu/%7Ekorenman/wmst/f_sci.html |
| WomensNet - Institute for Global Communities | This is a nonprofit computer network for women, activists and organizations. WomensNet works for increased women's rights and information sharing, provides email accounts, Internet access, WWW publishing, consulting and training. WomensNet seeks to adapt | http://www.igc.apc.org/womensnet/ |
| Women’s Relationship with the Web | This website focuses on exploring the experiences women have with the Internet as a new medium. It includes essays on the experiences of women with the Internet, a more general bibliography on gender and technology, book and film reviews and links to othe | http://www.unb.ca/web/PAR-L/win/index.htm |
| Gender, Science and Technology WWW Gateway -- Joint project with the Gender Advisory Board, UN Commission on S&T for Development. | The GST Gateway is a clearinghouse of resources, partners and policy recommendations to support gender equity in S&T for sustainable development.
| http://gstgateway.wigsat.org/gw.html |
| Missing Links -- the Gender Working Group of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development | In this landmark book, the UN-commissioned Gender Working Group outlines its policy proposals for national science and technology programs. Their goal is to ensure that women and men have equal access to, and benefit equally from, science and technology. | http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-9359-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html |
| Virtual Consultation on Gender Equality -- Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) | Published on March 8, 1999, International Women's Day, this is Canada's newest policy on gender equality. Includes discussion of information infrastructure and labor market issues.
| http://www.bellanet.org/partners/equal-egale/ |
| ACM: Women in Computing -- Association for Computing Machinery | The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Committee on Women in Computing has a searchable, online database of articles on women in computing. ACM itself also has a Digital Library.
| http://women.acm.org/policy.html |
| Women's Bureau | The website of the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau contains statistics on women in the labor force, including women in technology.
| http://www.dol.gov/wb/welcome.html |
| National Society of Black Engineers | With more than 270 chapters, NSBE is dedicated to increasing “the number of culturally responsible Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community.” Their website provides information on their tutorial pr | http://www.nsbe.org/ |
| Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science | SACNAS encourages “Chicano/Latino and Native American students to pursue graduate education and obtain the advanced degrees necessary for science research, leadership, and teaching careers at all levels.”
| http://www.sacnas.org/ |
| Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists | This association tries to increase the number of Mexican Americans in science and engineering. It provides mentoring, financial aid, career guidance, outreach programs, and community and industry partnerships, and it has high school, college, professional | http://www.maes-natl.org/ |
| American Indian Science & Engineering Society | "American Indian Science & Engineering Society promotes excellence, leadership and opportunities in education and professional development for American Indians and Alaska Natives.”
| http://www.aises.org/ |
| The National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) | “GEM exists to increase the number of American Indian, African American, Latino, Puerto Rican, and other Hispanic Americans pursuing graduate degrees in engineering, physical science and natural science disciplines” | http://www.gemfellowship.org/ |
| Using Science and Technology for Women's Empowerment (UNOPS) | UNOPS recognizes that one of the major barriers faced by women in poverty across the Asia-Pacific region is their lack of access to productive skills, information, and technology. This web site suggests strategies for fighting the feminization of poverty. | http://www.sdnp.undp.org/gender/ |
| Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering -- National Science Foundation | This report provides statistical data about the involvement of women and minorities in science and engineering. | http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/ |
| National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) | NACME's mission is "To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful African American, American Indian and Latino women and men in engineering and technology, math- and science-based careers." | http://www.nacme.org/ |
| Latin American Women Take on the Internet -- OnTheInternet, November 1997 | This article discusses Latin American woman utilizing information technology, and the work of the Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion -ALAI- (based in Ecuador) which is committed to building a more democratic communicational fabric,to promoting democra | http://www.connected.org/women/sally.html |
| The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences | This site profiles African American men and women who have contributed to Science and Engineering fields.
| http://https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html/ |
| Association for Women in Computing (AWS) | The AWS encourages, promotes and serves the interests of women in computing and their homepage lists meetings, events and information on AWC.
| http://www.awc-hq.org/ |
| Computing Research Association (CRA) Committee on the Status of Women | This website aims to take positive action to increase the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering research and education at all levels. It includes mentor projects, databases, and other resource tools.
| http://cra.org/Activities/craw/index.html |
| Committee on Women in Computing -- Association for Computing Machinery | The goal of this website is to promote activities that result in more equal representation of women in CS. It also serves as a repository of information about programs, documents and policies of concern to women in CS.
| http://women.acm.org/ |
| Society of Women Engineers | The Society of Women Engineers charter promises to stimulate women to achieve full potential as engineers and leaders.
| http://www.swe.org/ |
| National Center for Women & Information Technology | The goal of NCWIT “is to ensure that women are fully represented in the influential world of information technology and computing.” The organization holds workshops throughout the year, and their website offers a Digital Library, links and resources, and | http://www.ncwit.org/ |
| National Academies' Committee on Women in Science and Engineering | “The Committee on Women in Science and Engineering (CWSE) was established in 1991 as a standing committee of the National Research Council (NRC). CWSE's mandate is to coordinate, monitor, and advocate action to increase the participation of women in scien | http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cwse/ |
| Systers | Systers is an informal organization for technical women in computing that began in 1987 as a small mailing list for women in "systems", thus the name systers. There are now over 2500 systers in 25 countries.
| http://www.systers.org/ |
| EECS Women Enrollment Committee Report -- MIT | This website describes the findings of a 1995 MIT study on the disparate enrollment between men and women in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. The report outlines possible underlying reasons behind the statistics and recommends w | http://www.eecs.mit.edu/women-stu.html |
| Women in High Tech Jobs | This is part of the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau's "Facts on Working Women"
| http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/hitech02.htm |
| Educational Pipeline Issues for Women-- Computing Research News, 1990-91 | This website addresses the dearth of women in high tech computing professions. It examines the scope of the problem (the situation at the undergraduate, graduate, faculty, and profession level), outlines key causes and roadblocks, and suggests strategies | http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pipeline.html |
| Women in Electrical Engineering | Advice from engineer Kaitlin Duck Sherwood: "Being a woman in engineering industry is different from being a man in engineering industry. Not better, not worse, but different. I'm going to try to talk about the things that are going to annoy you and help | http://www.webfoot.com/advice/women.in.eng.html |
| Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering -- National Science Foundation | This link will take you to the main page for all editions of WMPD. WMPD is a series of Congressionally mandated biennial reports on the status of women and minorities in science and engineering. The reports document both short- and long-term trends in the | http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/wmpd/start.htm |
| Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists? | This website, prepared by Ellen Spertus, presents a seminal report on women in computer science professions. It offers a host of perspectives, such as societal factors, masculine characteristics of the work environment, sex-based intellectual differences, | http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/why.html |
| Women in the Labor Force: A Databook 2005 | This report, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, examines the increased participation of women in the labor force.
| http://www.bls.gov/cps/wlf-databook-2005.pdf |
| The Virtual Development Center (VDC) | The VDC “is a collaborative network of ten colleges and universities that draws technical and non-technical women, and their supporters, into technology by making the connection between technology creation and social impact”
| http://www.anitaborg.org/projects/vdc.html |
| 4000 Years of Women in Science | This website contains biographies and photographs of women in science | http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html |
| Women in Technology International's Museum Hall | This website details a project that documents the oral histories of eight women who were the first modern computer programmers of the world's first general purpose computing machine (the ENIAC).
| http://www.witi.com/center/witimuseum/halloffame/index.shtml |
| Women in Science: A Selection of 16 Significant Contributors | This website, created by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, profiles 16 women who were "significant contributors" to science. | http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/ |
| Past Notable Women of Computing | Brief biographies of women who advanced the field of computing are included in this website.
| http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html |
| Women of NASA | This site profiles the Women of NASA and runs a mentoring program between based on interactive events like chats, forums, and webcasts. The site is also available in Spanish.
| http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html |
| Gender, Science and Development Program | Although the Gender, Science and Development Program has ended, the links at this site are maintained by Women in Global Science and Technology. The site contains reports and papers on gender, science and technology and information on activities, organiza | http://www.ifias.ca/gsd/gsdinfo.html |
| Gender, Science, and Technology Gateway | The Gender, Science and Technology Gateway is a source for "research, practice, policy and partners in sustainable development which focuses on gender equality." It includes information on education, careers, society, decision making, ethics, and disaggre | http://gstgateway.wigsat.org/ |
| Academy of Sciences for the Developing World | Originally called "Third World Academy of Sciences,” is the first international forum to unite eminent women scientists from the developing word with the objective of strengthening their role in the development process and promoting their representation i | http://www.twas.org/custom404.html |
| United Nations WomenWatch | “WomenWatch is a central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system” | http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ |
| Women in Technology International (WITI) | WITI is a professional network of women representing a diversity of backgrounds, positions and disciplines working in and for technology organizations, academia and governmental agencies. The site contains a wide array of information dealing with the inte | http://www.witi.com/ |
| Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT) -- Ontario, Canada | WIGSAT supports global networking on critical issues in science and technology for development. This includes women’s formal and informal science and technology practices around the world, for policy advocacy and action which promotes their S&T contributi | http://www.wigsat.org/ |
| Supporting Women's Use of Information Technologies for Sustainable Development | Sophia Huyer of WIGSAT (February 1997)
The central question of this study concerns African women's use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). This includes issues of access, the benefits African women experience and can expect to experien | http://www.wigsat.org/it/womenicts.html |
| Gender Information Site -- Gender Equality Bureau, Cabinet Office , Japan | This website is one part of a multi-step process in moving toward the “realization of a gender-equal society in Japan .” It was commissioned by the Government of Japan to “facilitate national and international dissemination of information on measures rela | http://www.gender.go.jp/ |
| UNIFEM: Monitoring the Impact of Technological Changes on Women's Employment in the Asian Region | This project tries to give the women “who bear the consequences of the new technological and industrial policies” a voice in technological development. | http://www.unifem-eseasia.org/projects/techange.htm |
| Using Science and Technology for Women's Empowerment (UNOPS) | UNOPS recognizes that one of the major barriers faced by women in poverty across the Asia-Pacific region is their lack of access to productive skills, information, and technology. This web site suggests strategies for fighting the feminization of poverty. | http://www.sdnp.undp.org/gender/ |
| Women, Science and Technology in Latin America : Diagnoses and Strategies | This paper reports the recommendations of the Regional Forum, a forum organized by UNESCO and the Secretary of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Culture and Education through the Argentine Technological Fund (FONTAR). Topics include careers, educa | http://www.unesco.org/science/wcs/meetings/lac_bariloche_women_98.htm |
| From access to appropriation: Women and ICT policies in Latin American and the Caribbean | This paper looks at access to and distribution of Information and Communication Technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean and provides recommendations for improvement. | http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/ampro/cinterfor/temas/gender/doc/not/gbonder.htm |
| GASAT 8 Paper Submissions | 8th International Conference of the Gender and Science and Technology Association, Ahmedabad, India (January 5-10, 1996).
GASAT is an international association concerned with issues arising from interactions between gender and science and technology. T | http://www.wigsat.org/gasat/index.html |
| Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing | There is a Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference each year. This website contains the conference agenda, information on participation, and archives of past conferences. | http://www.gracehopper.org/ |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting | This is a link to the AAAS' annual meeting, featuring symposiums on Equity in Science and Engineering, Learning and Literacy, Public Understanding of Science, and many more. | http://www.aaas.org/meetings/Annual_Meeting/ |
| International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society | Organized by Common Ground Group, this conference addresses "the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society." Panels, presentations, and/or talking circles address women's roles in technology. | http://technology-conference.com/ |
| Women in Technology International (WITI) Conference Series | WITI is a global organization focused on women in business and technology. Their conference series run throughout the year. | http://www.witi.com/center/conferences/ |
| MA Conference for Women | Organized by the MA Commission on the Status of Women, this conference addresses business, career, finances, education, and health issues for women. There is a panel devoted to Women in Technology. December 6, 2006. | http://www.maconferenceforwomen.org/ |
| World Summit on Information Technologies | The first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) took place in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003 . It resulted in 175 countries adopting a Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action . The second phase took place in Tunis from 16 to | http://www.itu.int/wsis/ |
| National Conference for Women in the STEM Disciplines Report -- Association for Women in Science | This is a report on The Association for Women in Science's national conference, held June 23-24, 2005 at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. | http://www.awis.org/conference/conferencereport.html |
| Virtue and Virtuality: Gender, Law, and Cyberspace Conference Archive | This website covers the April 20-21, 1996 conference cosponsored by the MIT Program in Women's Studies. Although a certain amount of academic attention has been paid to each *pair* of terms at issue in this conference (gender and law, law and cyberspace, | http://www.wanow.org/ |
| The 8th International Conference of the Gender and Science and Technology Association | Held in Ahmedabad, India, on January 5-10, 1996. The theme of the conference was: Towards Sustainable Development -- Achieving Four E's: Education, Employment, Equality, Empowerment. This website includes a link to over 50 papers. | http://www.wigsat.org/gasat/GASAT8.html |
| Canadian Association of Girls in Science | “CAGIS is a network of girls, aged 7-16 who like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and want to learn more .” The site is designed to introduce young girls to science and has several experiments and activities girls can try. | http://publish.uwo.ca/%7Ecagis/ |
| Gender Issues in Computer Networking -- Leslie Regan Shade, McGill University, Graduate Program in Communications | A talk on gender and computer networking given at Community Networking: the International Free-Net Conference Carleton University, Ottawa, CANADA, August 17-19, 1993. | http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Gender_issues/leslie_regan_shade.article |
| Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT) -- Ontario, Canada | WIGSAT supports global networking on critical issues in science and technology for development. This includes women’s formal and informal science and technology practices around the world, for policy advocacy and action which promotes their S&T contributi | http://www.wigsat.org/ |
| Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers | SHPE is "the leading social-technical organization whose primary function is to enhance and achieve the potential of Hispanics in engineering, math and science." | http://oneshpe.shpe.org/wps/portal/national |
| Gifts of Speech | This is a collection of speeches (on various topics including science and technology) made by women from 1848-present. | http://gos.sbc.edu/ |
| MentorNet | MentorNet is an e-mentoring network that works to increase the retention and success of underrepresented populations in engineering, science and mathematics | http://www.mentornet.net/ |
| Girl Geeks | GirlGeeks "is an online community for women and girls interested in technology and computing." | http://www.girlgeeks.org/ |
| Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) -- UMass Amherst | CAITE at the University of Massachusetts Amherst designs and carries out comprehensive programs that address under representation in IT education and the workforce. | http://ripples.cs.umass.edu/~adrion/CAITE/ |
| Why Choose CS -- Univ. of Washington | This website features several videos about pathways to computer science and several profiles of real-life CS professionals and students. | http://www.cs.washington.edu/WhyCSE/ |
| Gender Genie | The Gender Genie uses an algorithm to predict the gender of an author based on writing style. | http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php |
| Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science | "IWITTS provides the tools to successfully integrate women into male-dominated careers -- such as technology and law enforcement -- via our training, publications, products, e-strategies, and technical assistance." | http://www.iwitts.com/ |
| Women's Technician Club | "The on-line home for women technicians to connect with each other." Includes personal stories from women in tech. fields and an e-store with educational materials and more. | http://www.womentechworld.org/ |
| IT Screen Goddesses Calendar | This calendar attempts to change the stereotypes associated with women in IT by featuring "beautiful photos of real women working in the IT industry, in poses inspired by movie goddesses old and recent" | http://www.itgoddess.info/ |
| Josie True | A free, NSF-sponsored adventure game for girls, created by Mary Flanagan | http://www.josietrue.com/ |
| Alice: Free, Easy, Interactive 3D graphics for the WWW | "The focus of the Alice project is now to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students." | http://www.alice.org/ |
| Computergirl | This website brings together existing resources for high school students and acts as a bridge to the computer world, helping students find the right resources quickly. | http://www.computergirl.us/ |
| Exploring Gender and Technology in Learning Environments | "The goal of this site is to engage learners in an interactive environment that allows them to utilize existing research and explore innovative models to construct gender equitable technology programs and polices." | http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~wit/exploring/index.htm |
| Tech Bridge Summer Program | Techbridge is an after-school and summer program designed to encourage girls in technology, science, and engineering. | http://www.techbridgegirls.org/ |
| Digital Divide Network | "The Digital Divide Network is the Internet's largest community for educators, activists, policy makers and concerned citizens working to bridge the digital divide." | http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/ |
| Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility-Women's Page | The women's page of the CPSR, a global organization promoting the responsible use of computer technology. | http://www.cpsr.org/issues/womenintech/ |
| UN Task Force on Gender and ICTs | Task Force on Gender and ICTs consists of representatives from UNIFEM, UNDP, World Bank, UNESCO, INSTRAW, FAO and UNV and was created to inventory and monitor all UN organizations and activities relating to gender and ICTs The Task Force works closely | http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ianwge/taskforces/tfgenderict.htm |
| Project: Monitoring the Impact of New Technologies on Women's Industrial Work in Asia | Focusing on Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, China and Vietnam, the project addressed the question of exclusion and tries to identify the points of intervention by national governments that would allow women to enjoy the ben | http://www.intech.unu.edu/ |
