Career Information for Students / Profiles of Women Scientists

• Careers: Exploring the Possibilities
  NMNWSE Careers Book, created and published by NMNWSE for our EYH conferences.
   
• Resources from the Expanding Your Horizons Network
   
• Beating the Odds: Remarkable Women in Science and Young Women in Science: Forging New Pathways, two booklets designed to inspire young women to consider STEM careers created by Science, an AAAS journal, in partnership with the L'Oréal Foundation
   
• She is an Astronomer, an IYA2009 cornerstone project to provide information to female professional and amateur astronomers, students, and those interested in the gender equality problem in science and tp provide a focal point and forum for women in astronomy. Includes profiles of women astronomers as well as a 2010 Calendar featuring women astronomers who made history (available in spanish and english).
   
• I was wondering, a website highlighting for young people the varied and intriguing careers of some of today's most prominent women scientists. From the National Academy of Sciences. Inspired by the Women's Adventures in Science book series.
   
• IEEE Women in Engineering
  IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists. Their webpage includes a link to TryEngineering.org, which lets visitors explore how to prepare for an engineering career, ask experts engineering-related questions, play interactive games, and more.
   
• Women in Computer Science
  Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRAW) brochure highlighting the careers of several women in the field of computer science.
   
• AWG Career Profiles: What Do Earth Scientists Do?
  This packet from the Association for Women Geoscientists illustrates the diversity of careers available in the Geosciences through profiles of several women, emphasizing what lead them to chose a career in the earth sciences.
   
• The Society of Women Engineers webpages have career information like "Is Engineering for You?" and a "Guide for High School Women on Becoming an Engineer". They also offer an elementary school "outreach activities kit". (Note: Got to http://www.swe.org and click on K-12 Programs or enter the text in quotes in the SWE search box).
   
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
   
• The Women of NASA The Women of NASA resource was developed to encourage more young women to pursue careers in math, science, and technology.
   
• 4000 Years of Women in Science
   
• Voices of Girls in Science, Mathematics, and Technology
   
• Biographies of women scientists from the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans
   
• Another site with several links to Hispanic, Latina, Chicana Women in Science
   
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians
   
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
   
• Sloan Career Cornerstone Series
  Nine videotapes a describing some of the diverse career paths open to engineers, mathematicians, and physical scientists. (sorry, you have to pay for these)
   
• How to Become an Astronaut 101, Lt. Col. Cady Coleman talks with Science@NASA about what it's like to be an astronaut and how a passion for high school chemistry led her to become one.
   
• Women Nobel Prize Winners, a list plus some related material
   
• Echo's Women in Science and Engineering project at George Mason University. Documents the career experiences of women in science and engineering in recent memory, and has links to several other Women Scientist sites.
   
• Girls Go Tech, information on how technology can be part of your future from the Girl Scouts of America
   
• Girls Inc, a national non-profit youth organization dedicated to inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold.
   
• Intuitor - How to Succeed Through Creative Learning - this website offers some science games, and a page on the importance of taking physics in High School.
   
• Biographies of Notable Female Scientists from Factmonster.
   
• Women In Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ON THE AIR! is an audio resource for young girls, young women, parents, middle and high school teachers, college professors, guidance counselors, researchers, organizational leaders, and anyone interested in learning more about the past, present and future role of women in science and technology education, fields and careers.
   
• Physics is for You An exciting introduction to physics and your world from the American Institute of Physics
   
• Physics in Your Future from the American Physical Society. Conveys the exciting possibilitiesof a career in physics.

Profiles of Women in other non-traditional Careers

• Ladies Night over Afghanistan, the first all-female crew to fly an air refueling mission into Afghanistan from Ganci.
   
• Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS)

New Mexico Careers

• New Mexico Career Clusters Guidebook from the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions. Are you ready to be a success, earn more money, work at a job you love, and be appreciated for it? The New Mexico Career Clusters Guidebook puts you in charge!