Professional Societies and Educational Resources

• The American Association for University Women  (New Mexico Branches)
  includes news updates and research dealing with the impacts of gender bias and the paths to equity.
   
• Committee on the Status of Women in Computer Science and Engineering Home Page
  CRAW Careers Booklet, Graduate Information Booklet, Women's Database Project, mentoring information, links to sites featuring women in science and engineering, etc.
   
• Committee on the Status of Women in Physics Home Page
  Speakers List, links to references on gender and equity issues, Archive of Contributions of Women to 20th Century Physics, links to sites featuring women in science and engineering, etc.   See also the Minorities Speakers List and the education programs of the APS
   
• Data on Women in Physics from the American Institute of Physics   Education page
  (more statistics on physics education and employment - click on women and minorities link under faculty to see various graphs summarizing current trends.
   
• Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology - CPST specializes in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of reliable information about the human resources of the US in the fields of science, engineering, and technology, including data on the status of women and minorities inthese professions.
   
• Association for Women Geoscientists Home Page
  career profiles ("What so Earth Scientists Do?"), job listings, geology links, links to sites featuring women in science and geology, etc.
   
• Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists
   
• National Science Resources Center of the National Academy of Science
   
• The American Association of Physics Teachers
   
• The National Science Teachers Association
   
• MentorNet - the National Electronic Industrial Mentoring Network for Women in Science and Engineering: need a mentor?? want to be a mentor?? Also has job ads
  Sample MentorNet article: Think IT & Computer Science Jobs Are History? Think Again!
   
• Women in Optics Working Group - newsletter and discussion group
  International Society for Optical Engineering   Educators page and career page - includes links to "Careers in Optics and Photonics Video" and "What Optics Professionals Do".
   
• National Association of Science Writers
   
• The Anita Borg Institute provides platforms that enable women's voices, ideas, and spirits to influence technology. The founder, Anita Borg, was know for her trademark T-shirt reading "Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History", a quote from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
   
• Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network (WEPAN), is a national non-profit educational organization established to effect a positive change in the engineering infrastructure conducive to the academic and professional development of women and men.
   
• Space Careers is a specialist niche jobs board designed to assist the space industry players with their recruitment issues on a worldwide basis.
   
• Science & Technology Pages of the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
   
• A web page devoted to the dissemination of information about career breaks for scientists, with the main focus being physics and related fields.
   
• The Science Lab, a directory of science-related websites.
   
• NSF/EHR National Science Foundation's Education and Human Resources page
   
• Organizations Encouraging Women in Science and Engineering The National Research Council's Committee on Women in Science and Engineering (CWSE)'s resource guide.
   
• The Maria Mitchell Association the Maria Mitchell Association is dedicated to furthering science education, encouraging women in science, and serving as a science resource for Nantucket Island.
   
• Women in Technology (WITI)'s WITI Campus WITI was founded to attract, develop, and retain women in science and technology.
   
• WWWomen Science Links
   
• Princeton University Library Women's Studies webpage
   
• Expect the Best From a Girl This site emphasizes parental involvement in educating daughters.
   
• Codes of Ethics in the sciences online from the Center for Study of Ethics in the Professions of the Illinois Institute of Technology
   
• Center for Excellence and Equity in Education at Rice University
  Rice Center for Research on Parallel Computation Education page
   
• Education World, a resource to help educators integrate the internet into the classroom.
   
• Gender Issues in Science/Math Education (GISME) (Hake & Mallow, 2008), a compilation of literature on this topic.
  Part 1, all references in alphabetic order
  Part 2, some references in subject order
   
• The Ninety-Nines, International Organization of Women Pilots.