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  • 4000 Years of Women in Science

    Biographies, photographs, and references concerning women asdtronomers, physicists, mathematicians, chemists, inventors, etc.

  • American Women in Radio and Television, Inc. (AWRT)

    "American Women in Radio and Television, Inc. (AWRT) is a non-profit, professional organization of women and men who work in the electronic media and allied fields." Their mission "is to advance the impact of women in the electronic media and allied fields by education, advocating and acting as a resource to our members and the industry."

  • Archives of Women in Science and Engineering

    Website give details of the scope and content of the archive held in the Special Colelctions Department of Iowa State University.

  • Celebrating Diversity: Women Energize the Atomic World

    "This site highlights and celebrates the contribution of women in the nuclear field."

  • Center for Women and Information Technology

    "The Center has a four-fold mission: to encourage more women and girls to study computer science and/or information systems and to pursue careers in IT to enable all women and girls to use IT comfortably and knowledgeably to assure that the richness and breadth of women's lives and concerns are fully represented and readily available on the Internetto foster research concerning the relationship between gender and IT. The Center plans to accomplish its mission through varied initiatives.Three projects already under way are the Speakers Series, the CWIT Scholars Program, and the CWIT website, whichABCNews.com has called 'the best resource on women and technology on the Web.'"

  • European Women in Mathematics

    EWM focuses on contemporaary women mathematicians.

  • Field Museum's Women in Science

    Personal interviews with 13 women about why they chose carers in science.

  • International Archive of Women in Architecture

    "The purpose of the archive is to document the history of women's involvement in architecture by collecting, preserving, storing, and making available to researchers the professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners, and the records of women's architectural organizations, from around the world."

  • Latina Women of NASA

    Contains "profiles of diverse Latina women working at NASA centers across ou nation."

  • Office of Women's Policy

    Bureau of Naval Personnel site features facts, statistics, and a history of women in the U. S. Navy.

  • Timeline: Women in Space

    Timeline of women actronauts. From National Public Radio.

  • Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders and Book Designers

    This exhibit records how "Women have been involved in printing and the making of books ever since these crafts were first developed," From Princeton University Library's Graphic Arts Collection.

  • Women Exploring the Oceans: Remarkable Careers in Oceanography

    "Our goal was to design a Website that can engage the public and school children in the day-to-day science of women marine scientists. Through thisproject, we hope to encourage young woman to pursue careers in scienceand to remove the mystery that surrounds being a scientist. Over the courseof a year we will highlight twelve women, underscoring the different careerpaths in science and the diversity of the women who choose science as acareer."

  • Women in Aviation Resource Center (WIARC)

    Eucational, historical, and networking resources to empower women involved in all aspects of aviation.

  • Women in Chemistry: Her Lab in Your Life

    Companion to a traveling exhibition which "frames the stories of women chemists in a series of 12 colorful thematic stations. Created especially for high school and college students, but designed to engage general audiences as well, the exhibition showcases women who have helped create our modern world and their historic contributions to science and technology, and encourages young women to explore careers in chemistry."

  • Women of NASA

    A program developed by NASA to encourage more young women to pursue careers in math, science, and technology.

  • Women Physicians : 1850s - 1970s

    Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, college records, images, diaries, publications and ephemera documenting the history of women physicians beginning with the first medical school for women, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

  • Women's Path Into Ministry: Six Major Studies

    "In a review of six major studies on clergywomen, Edward C. Lehman, Jr., argues that women's ordination is one of the most significant recent developments in American religion, fostering change in churchgoers' attitudes toward women in leadership and expanding the concept of ministry beyond the local congregation."

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