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The Ada Project (TAP)

http://tap.mills.edu/

"The Ada Project (TAP) is a WWW site designed to serve as a clearinghouse for information and resources relating to women in computing". TAP includes information on conferences, employment, organizations, fellowships and awards, and other electronically accessible information sites.

Author: ACM Committee on the Status of Women in Computing (tcamp@mines.edu)

Subjects:

Computers & Internet

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Advancing Women

http://www.advancingwomen.com/

"An award winning, bi-lingual [English and Spanish] web site, offering business and technology news and career strategies for women in the workplace, including the first refereed journal for women researchers and educators." Includes an online career center, Today's Womens' News feature, forums for discussion, links for networking with international women, personal services resources and links to similar sites.

Author: Gretchen Glasscock (publisher@advancingwomen.com)

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Business Administration & Management--Women & Minority-owned Business

Business & Economics--Business & Economics News

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Biographies of Women Mathematicians

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

"These pages are part of an on-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. There are brief comments on many of the women mathematicians and some photos (which look best at more than 256 colors). Our goal is for this list to continue to expand, and for more biographies to be completed." Not all entries are complete, but the ones that are include references. There are also links to excellent resources on the topic of women and mathematics.

Author: Larry Riddle (LRiddle@AgnesScott.edu)

Subjects:

Reference--Biographies--Scientists & Inventors

Science & Technology--Mathematics

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Female; Woman; Biography

The Celebration of Women Writers

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

"The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing. All too often, works by women, and resources about women writers, are hard to find. We attempt to provide easy access to available on-line information. The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women."

Author: Mary Mark (celebration@pobox.upenn.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Authors

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Writing

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Writing; Writers; Authors

Center for Women & Information Technology

http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/

"The Center for Women and Information Technology, established at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in July, 1998, seeks to address and rectify women's under-representation in IT and to enhance our understanding of the relationship between gender and IT." The Web site features curricular resources, links to sites focusing on women or girls and information technology, and news.

Author: Joan Korenman (korenman@umbc.edu)

Subjects:

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: information technology

CPSR Gender Page (CPSR)

http://www.cpsr.org/dox/program/gender/index.html

"These Gender Pages at CPSR are meant to be a resource which can play a part in this mentoring process (to help support other women who want to enter into computer-related fields)...I do my best to include links to the most current information and scholarship on gender and computing available online. I have also begun a page for job leads in the areas of women's studies, computer science, or any other jobs which I come across which seem to relate to our theme of gender and computing which you also might find helpful."

Author: Julie Albright (albright@scf.usc.edu)

Subjects:

Computers & Internet

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Woman; Female

4000 Years of Women in Science

http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

This site includes biographical information about over 125 women inventors, scholars, writers, mathematicians and astronomers.

Author:

Subjects:

Reference--Biographies--Scientists & Inventors

Science & Technology

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Science

The Glass Ceiling Commission

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/e_archive/gov_reports/glassceiling/default.html

Provides downloading of a variety of articles that offer a variety of viewpoints on how the glass ceiling - as it affects women and other minorities - is a barrier in the workplace.

Author: Constance Finley (cf13@cornell.edu)

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Labor & Workplace

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Glass Ceiling

The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: a Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines

http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/bibliogs/hws/hws.htm

A lengthy source of bibliographies about women in science. This source provides bibliographies of biographies, scientific views of women, feminist critiques of science, and works on women in every scientific discipline. Other topics include women's health, the history of home economics, and the impact of technology on women. Searchable.

Author: The Office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian (wiswsl@macc.wisc.edu)

Subjects:

Science & Technology

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Women's History

Keywords: Bibliography

IEEE Women-In-Engineering Home Page

http://www.ieee.org/women/

This site presents information regarding issues and activities important to the Woman Engineer. It contains links to newsletters, on-line articles, other websites of interest, and more.

Author: Cathy Downer (women@ieee.org)

Subjects:

Science & Technology--Engineering

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Career; Mentor; Diversity

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)

http://www.nmwa.org/

"The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. In the pages that follow you will discover a wealth of information about the museum, selected artists, our collection, and many services. You may choose to examine images of works from our permanent collection, or take a tour of the museum with Founder Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. Artist profiles feature the lives of selected women artists and corresponding bibliographies lead you to new sources of information."

Author: NMWA (NMWAmem@aol.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Paintings; Sculpture; Photography

Online Women's Business Center

http://www.onlinewbc.org/

"This interactive business skills training web site is dedicated to helping entrepreneurial women to realize their goals and aspirations for their personal and professional development. Our goal is to provide them with the information and expertise necessary for planning their economic independence through owning their own business." The information includes online forums, message boards, as well as resource databases and informative articles. The site is searchable and is available in English, Spanish, and Russian.

Author: Small Business Administration, Office of Women's Business Ownership

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Business Administration & Management--Small Business & Entrepreneurship

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Woman; Women; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Management; Finance; Accounting

SAWNET Bookshelf

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/books/

This is an excellent resource for books written by South Asian women. The site organizes books by category (fiction, non-fiction, anthology, cookbook, etc.), lists authors, and provides information on bookstores, book clubs, magazines and more. It also provides book reviews, interviews and other information for some books. It is put together by SAWNET, the South Asia Women's Network, "a forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues." This site makes me want to go read a book!

Author: SAWNET (South Asian Women's NETwork) (sawweb@umiacs.umd.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Authors

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Asian & Pacific/Asian-American

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: South Asia; Authors; Writers

Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age

http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/unheard_voices/

Provides a guide to primary sources related to women entrepreneurs and women and work available at Baker Library at Harvard Business School, with particular focus on the 19th century. Includes a bibliography and links to web sites related to the history of women in business.

Author: Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School (histcollref@hbs.edu)

Subjects:

Business & Economics--Business Administration & Management--Women & Minority-owned Business

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--Historical Documents

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

The Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP)

http://www.indiana.edu./~letrs/vwwp/

The project was developed in order to provide digital texts of Victorian women writers. The collection is medium sized, but is still growing. The site would be useful for someone looking up information on sometimes obscure articles, poems, etceteras. Includes dates of original publication, birth and death dates of the authors, and links to electronic versions of journals from the period, societies which study this subject, other electronic text projects, and related sites.

Author: Perry Willett (PWILLETT@indiana.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Literature by Time Period

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Online Texts

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Victorian; Authors; Feminist

Women and Computer Science

http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/Gender/gender.html

The site contains a collection of on-line and original articles on women in computer science in the present and in the past. The author also has compiled a list of resources on the Web for more information on this topic.

Author: Ellen Spertus (spertus@mills.edu)

Subjects:

Computers & Internet

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Female; Computer Science; History

Women Artists in History

http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html

Index of women artists from the Renaissance to today, whenever possible examples of artworks are illustrated. Also has links to other sites with information about women artists.

Author: Wendy Murdock and Carrie Carolin (wendy@wendy.com)

Subjects:

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Women in Sports

http://www.makeithappen.com/wis/

Biographies of female athletes indexed by sport and by name; biographies of women in the sports business.

Author: Jan Meyer (aerosoftware@yolo.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Sports

Reference--Biographies

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Biographies

Women Writers of the Middle Ages

http://www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/duncan/medfem/medfem.html

Links to biographies of secular writers, saints and women in religious vocations, composers such as Hildegard van Bingen, and medieval writings about women (witches, nuns, peasants,etc.) also some medieval illustrations, links to information and some examples of medieval women artists and women in medieval art, and more links to medieval domestic life, faith and religion, guilds and economics, science and mathematics, health and healing, law and politics,literature, medieval warfare, music, philosophy. 

Author: Bonnie Duncan (bduncan@marauder.millersv.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Europe--Middle Ages (Medieval)

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Literature by Time Period

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

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