Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

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Women in Science and Engineering

• Organizations
  • Women of Science at the Marine Biology Lab, who have an excellent historical exhibit.
  • Society of Women Engineers
  • WITI, the International Network of Women in Technology
  • Association of Women in Science New England and Seattle chapters.
  • South African Women in Science and Engineering
  • Women in Science Project at Dartmouth College
  • Argonne Lab's Women in Science and Technology Program
  • The National Research Council's Committee on Women in Science and Engineering
  • The Association for Women Geoscientists
• Information Sites
  • Women and Computer Science
  • Women in Sciences and Engineering, a collection of facts and figures.
  • Some Women's Studies and Women In Science Resources.
• Documents
  • "Barriers to Women in Academic Science and Engineering", by Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor, Michael Neuschatz, and Brian Uzzi (postscript and HTML)
  • The University of Wisconsin-Madison draft of an Action Plan for Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
  • "Final Report of the Committee on the Status of Women Graduate Students and Faculty in the College of Engineering", University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, by Marianne S. Winslett, et al. Available in Postscript and text.
  • The Wisconsin bibliography of women and science
  • Kaitlin Duck Sherwood's What Every Woman Student Needs to Know about the Engineering Workplace

Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

• The National Science Foundation's Partners in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Education's brochure on Building a Diverse Community.
• Education Grants for Minorities and Women.
• The Mathematical Association of America (MAA)'s information on women and minorities, including Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement (SUMMA), The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Women and Mathematics (WAM).
• The National Science Foundation's documents on women and minorities, including the Proceedings of the National Conference on Diversity in the Scientific and Technological Workforce.
• DataLine, a newsletter on the "glass ceiling" faced by women and minority men.
• The Library of Congress's bibliography on African-American women in the sciences.

Racial Minorities in Science and Engineering

• National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science.
• Columbia University's report on The Dilemmas of Diversity: Civility and Satisfaction among Undergraduates at Columbia. Students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science were found to be least satisfied.
• The Minority On-Line Information System, particularly the Science and Engineering Alliance.
• African-Americans
  • The Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences
  • National Society of Black Engineers ( Georgia Institute of Technology, Princeton University, McGill University, University of Michigan, California State University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute).
  • The National Black Data Processing Associates' mission is to sustain a network of information technology professionals that is a positive influence in the information processing industry; a network which shares information, provides education and performs community service.
• Chicanos/Latinos
  • The Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists
  • The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
  • Chicano/LatinoNet contains information on Society for the Advancement of Chicano/Native Americans in Science.
• American Indians
  • AISESnet, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Information Server Network

Sexual Minorities in Science and Engineering

• National Organisation of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals
• Biographies of Alan Turing
  • MacTutor History of Mathematics archive)
  • History of Computing Archive
  • History of Mathematics

Profiles of Female Scientists

• Hypatia, the first recorded female mathematician
• Dorothy Hill (1907-?), geologist and palaeontologist
• Annie Jean Macnamara (1899-1968), medical scientist
• The Life and Times of Emmy Noether
• Biographies from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive:
  • Hypatia
  • Maria Gaetana Agnesi
  • Sophie Germain
  • Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
  • Amalie Emmy Noether

Miscellaneous

• Feminist Science Fiction
• Amelia Earhart talks of science's aids to women in 1935 courtesy the MSU Vincent Voice Library.
• George Washington Carver talks about peanut research in 1930's , courtesy the MSU Vincent Voice Library.
• An incomplete list of black inventors.

Collections of Women's Internet Resources

• Women's Resources Mosaic Project.
• Martin Ramsch's collection Frauen in Gesellschaft und Studium (Women in Society and Education).
• Guidelines for non-sexist language.
• Webgrrls
• Jessie Stickgold-Sarah's information on net resources for and about women.
• Sarah Stapleton-Gray's guide to resources on the internet for the active feminist.
• Yahoo's list of women's studies resources.
• The San Fransisco Examiner's Women's Web.
• ljray's Women's links

Resources for Women of Color

• Isis, an Urban Black Women's Cultural Salon
• Articles about the national conference "Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name 1894-1994" (The [MIT] Tech and [MIT] Tech Talk)

Collections of Minority Internet Resources

• Chicano/LatinoNet is an electronic mechanism which brings together Chicano/Latino research as well as linguistic minority and educational research efforts being carried out at the University of California and elsewhere
• Meanderings, an African-American Journal of Politics, Art and Culture
• The Universal Black Pages
• Drum provides connectivity to the Internet, National Information Highway, and various State Information Highways for the African and African American community
• Race and Racism gopher

Ellen Spertus (ellens@ai.mit.edu)