http:^^lucien.berkeley.edu^women_in_it.html

This data set contains WWW-pages collected from computer science departments of various universities

<dt><!WA57><a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~slcst19/women.html">Women in Computing</a>.<p>

<dd>Sara Callahan at Pittsburgh has set up a page similar to this one,
including some interesting information about the WASPs (Women Airforce
Service Pilots) of WWII.<p>

<dt><!WA58><a href="http://www.cpsr.org/dox/program/gender/index.html">Gender Issues</a><P>

<dd>Maintained by BAWIT (Bay Area Women In Technology) on the
<!WA59><a href="http://cpsr.org/home">Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility</a>'s server, this page contains several
interesting articles on gender issues in computing, communications and
networking, as well as the obligatory collection of
references to other pages.  You might also want to look at some of
the material they have in <!WA60><a
href="gopher://gopher.cpsr.org/11/cpsr/gender/">their gopher</a>.<P>

<dt><!WA61><a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/cheryb/women/wshome.html">The Women's
Resources Project</a><p>

<dd>Put together by our colleagues in the School of
Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, this page provides
information on resources about and for
women.  It focuses on resources available in the Triangle area, but
also has pointers to a variety of different resources available over
the Internet.  A very good site for information on Women's Studies
programs and related info.<P>

<dt><!WA62><a href="gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/00/inetdirsstacks/women%3ahunt">Sources for women's studies/feminist information on the Internet</a><p>

<dd>Provided by Laura Hunt (formerly of the SLIS program at Univ. of Michigan),
this page provides a guide for those conducting feminist or women's studies
research on the Internet.  Particularly good place to look for 
Listservs relating to feminism and women's studies issues (see also
Amy Goodloe's site listed above, and Joan Korenman's regularly updated
compilation of women-related lists in the <!WA63><a href="#news">Newsgroups & 
Lists</a> section below).<P>

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<a name="biblio"><b>BIBLIOGRAPHIES</b></a><p>
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<dt><!WA64><a href="http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html">Archives of Women in Science and Engineering</a><p>

<dd>Located at Iowa State University Library
(inaugurated in 1994), the archives exist "to document the history of women in
science and engineering--their social history as well as the story of
their scientific achievements.  Allied with Iowa State's Program for 
Women in Science and Engineering, whose goal is to
encourage women to become scientists and engineers in the future, the
Archives will document the lives and careers of those who have achieved 
this goal in the past. The Archives collects widely in all
fields of engineering and in the physical, earth, life, and
computational sciences, though not in medicine."  An <i>excellent</i>
resource for those researching the history of women's history in the
sciences in this country.<p>

<dt><!WA65><a href="gopher://infolib.lib.berkeley.edu/11/eres/resdbs/womstu/womenbib">The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology</a><p>

<dd>Available through the U.C. Berkeley Library gopher, this bibliography
was published by the Univ. of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian.
It is organized into six parts: 1. Overviews; 2. Women in the Scientific
Professions; 3. Health & Biology; 4. Home Economics/Domestic Science; 
5. Technology; and 6. Children and Young Adult Literature.  The bibliography
was prepared "to aid colleagues in both designing new gender-centered 
courses and integrating feminist scholarship into existing survey courses...
[and] to make the history of women in the professions more accessible to 
practitioners in the various branches of science, medicine, and technology."<p>

<dt><!WA66><a href="http://lucien.berkeley.edu/women.infotech.design.bib">feminist information system design &
research</a><p>

<dd>The original version of this bibliography (compiled by Helena
Karasti?) came from the English Server.
  I intend to start adding on to a local version of this
as I find works pertaining to information system design from a 
feminist perspective.<p>

<dt><!WA67><a href="http://gertrude.art.uiuc.edu/wits/bibliography1.html">Women and Information Technology: An Annotated Bibliography</a><p>

<dd>A very nice, comprehensive annotated bibliography put together by 
the <!WA68><a href="http://gertrude.art.uiuc.edu/wits/witshomepage.html">WITS</a> colloquium at the University of Illinois.  Highly recommended if you want a broad
perspective on all issues effecting women and their interactions with
technology.  My only complaint is I wish that had enabled a form of access
which didn't make you go through the pages sequentially.  Jerry's tip of
the day: if you go to http://gertrude.art.uiuc.edu/wits/ you'll get a
directory listing which includes all of the bibliography pages.  Helpful
if you want to skip around a little within the bibliography.<p>

<dt><!WA69><a href="http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/Gender.html">Gender, Sex and
Sexuality</a><p>

<dd>While not strictly speaking a bibliography, The English Server 
has a page devoted to Feminism and Women's Studies, and Gender Studies 
and Queer Studies (including several interesting articles on gender
and technology).  Be sure to check out <i>Feminist Use of Cyberspace</i>
by Ellen Balka, as well as the information on the <i>International Network
of Women in Technology</i> (see the entry for WITI under professional
organizations below for more information).<P>

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<a name="directories"><b>DIRECTORIES</b></a><p>
<dl>

<dt><!WA70><a href="http://www.sdsu.edu/wit/">Women in Technology</a><p>

<dd>"The purpose of the Women in Technology Directory is to facilitate and
encourage women's ability to network with one another.  The directory is
to provide information that women can use to collaborate, mentor, and
advance their careers."<p>

<dt><!WA71><a href="http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1206/">Web Weavers</a><p>

<dd>Personal and Non-personal pages by women.  Selected pages appear
to be vetted for content.<p>

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<a name="status"><b>WOMEN'S STATUS IN CS & IT</b></a><p>
<dl>

<dt><!WA72><a href="http://www.digital.com/pub/doc/hopper/info.html">Grace Hopper
Celebration of Women in Computer</a><p>

<dd>You may have missed it while it was going on, but you
can see who was there (as well as order a conference poster or
t-shirt).  You can also read the <!WA73><a
href="http://www.acq.osd.mil/ddre/docs/Grace_Hopper_Speech.html">Keynote Speech</a> by Anita Jones.  And the good folks at <!WA74><a href="http://www.uvc.com">
University Video Communications</a> have now made videos from the
conference available (including IR Deity Karen Sparck Jones).<P>

<dt><!WA75><a href="http://www-eecs.mit.edu/announce/13.html">EECS Women
Enrollment Committee Report</a><p>

<dd>A committee report from MIT on MIT's attempts
to address disparities in male/female enrollment within the EECS
program.  Now, if we can just get U.C. Berkeley to engage
in a similar process of self-examination....<p>

<dt><!WA76><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ethics/www/ecsel/">MIT ECSEL -- Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence in Education and Leadership</a><p>

<dd>ECSEL is a coalition of 7 schools and colleges
of engineering "engaged in a five-year effort to renew undergraduate
engineering education and its infrastructure," particularly on making
engineering attractive to a broader spectrum of youth.<p>

<dt><!WA77><a href="http://gnn.com/gnn/meta/edu/features/archive/gtech.html">No Girls Allowed!</a><p>

<dd>An article by <!WA78><a href="http://gnn.com/gnn/meta/edu/features/archive/mkbio.html">Melissa Koch</a> (posted at GNN) discussing the reasons
that women are excluded from technology and what might be done to
help.<p>

<dt><!WA79><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/projects/women/index.html">Women and Computers: A Sacramento Bee special report</a><p>

<dd>A special report to the Sacramento Bee, written by reporter Ilana DeBare
(photography by Laura Chun), examining women's underrepresentation in high
technology fields.  The report is broken into 8 major sections: an overview
of women in the computer industry, profiles of 4 female executives in the 
computer business (Pat Gillenwatter [Illustra], Ly-Huong Pham [Apple],
Heidi Roizen [T/Maker Co.], and Erika Williams [System Integrators, Inc.],
an examination of technology's effects on secretarial staff, a discussion
of women's experience in the online environment, a section on girls and
computing and one on girls and video games, a section on raising
computer-savvy kids, and the inevitable list of other web sites for
information.<p>

<dt><!WA80><a href="http://tweedledee.ucsb.edu/~kris/WIS.html">Women in Sciences and Engineering</a><p>

<dd>This page has a variety of statistics available on the presence of women
in science and engineering fields (from a talk given by Dr. Mildred
Dresselhaus from MIT at U.C. Santa Barbara in 1992), as well as
some useful bibliographies on women in science in engineering and
pointers to various internet resources.<p>

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<a name="organizations"><b>ORGANIZATIONS</b></a><p>

<i>General</i><p>
<dl>

<dt><!WA81><a href="http://www.webgrrls.com/">Webgrrls! (SM)</a><p>

<dd>An international organization providing networking opportunities,
classes, directory services, and job announcements, not to mention
great parties.  Be sure to check out the page of founding member
<!WA82><a href="http://www.cybergrrl.com/">Cybergrrl!</a> as well.<p>

<dt><!WA83><a href="http://www.wim.org/">Women in Multimedia</a><p>

<dd>"Women in Multimedia is a bay area-based non-profit organization
concerned with the social implications of emerging technologies.  Among
WIM's primary goals is to be an information resource for education,
events, jobs and issues in new media."<p>

<dt><!WA84><a href="http://www.xxlink.nl:80/vin/0/home.htm">Women's Information Technology Network</a><p>

<dd>"The Women's Information Technology Network is a Dutch nationwide association of women that are involved with information technology in some shape or form."  More information available for those who speak Dutch.<p>

<dt><!WA85><a href="http://www.nas.edu/cwse">Organizations Encouraging Women in Science & Engineering</a><p>

<dd>Exactly what it sounds like, and one of the
more comprehensive such lists I've found.  Not a huge amount of
information available on each, but enough to tell you who to get in
touch with for more information.<p>

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<i>Academic</i><p>
<dl>

<dt><!WA86><a href="ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/students/wicse/index.html">U.C. Berkeley WICSE</a><p>

<dd>U.C. Berkeley's Women In Computer Science & Electrical Engineering 
Home Page.  It has a
variety of useful information for women in UCB-CS (fellowships, names
of important mailing lists, information for parents in EECS on
childcare and the EECS parents' mailing list,
WICSE's schedule of meetings & events), as well as pointers to other
important resource pages.  You might also want to look at the
page for the <!WA87><a href="http://www.thesphere.com/SWE/">Society of
Women Engineers</a>, which has a U.C. Berkeley chapter.<P>

<dt><!WA88><a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wics/">Women in Information &
Computer Science at U.C. Irvine</a><p>

<dd>U.C. Irvine's chapter of Women in Information & Computer Science is
dedicated to "...making this place still more friendly for female
students, and encouraging them to enter, remain, and continue their
higher education through the Ph.D. degree here."  Their page has sets
of links to Faculty, Staff, Graduate Student, Undergraduate, and Alumni
home pages, as well as a list web resources for computer science, and 
contact information for the WICS-UCI chapter.<p>

<dt><!WA89><a href="http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~womencs">Stanford University's Women In Computer Science (WICS)</a><p>

<dd>Stanford's WICS has a page up giving a calendar
of events, pointers to student/faculty home pages (with some
<i>very</i> interesting papers to check out), and a variety of
further WWW resources.  WICS maintains an e-mail distribution list
for communication among the women in the CS department and among
women affiliated with the department in various ways. It also
provides contact information for women that are interested in getting
in touch with us, such as prospective students or visitors<p>

<dt><!WA90><a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu:80/orgs/wics/">WiCS</a> Women in Computer Science at Brown<p>

<dd>Various information about the CS dept. at Brown including programs of study
and fellowship and grant information, as well as a listing of wider resources
on the web.<p>

<dt><!WA91><a href="http://www.das.harvard.edu/cs/people/women.html">Harvard University Women in Computer Science</a><p>

<dd>"WICS is an organization for women in Computer Science at Harvard University.  Members include undergraduates, graduates, and faculty members."  Harvard
WICS's page has links to those of its members who have WWW pages available, as
well as a short list of other WWW resources.<p>

<dt><!WA92><a href="http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~cgross/WICSHomepage.html">University of Oregon's Women in Computer Science</a><p>

<dd>Univ. of Oregon's WICS chapter homepage.  Has links to members' pages, to
women's services at both Univ. of Oregon and the Eugene area, a List of other
WICS chapters at other universities, and a collection of links for women
in CS.<p>

<dt><!WA93><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~karavan/wics.html">Women in Computer Sciences</a> at University of Wisconsin -- Madison<p>

<dd>"Women in Computer Sciences (WICS) is an informal group of all female
members of the Computer Sciences Department here at UW-Madison.  This includes
students (both graduate and undergraduate), faculty, and research/teaching staff."  Includes pointers to other information sources, as well as instructions
on subscribing to the WICS mailing list at UW-Madison.<p>

<dt><!WA94><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/org/women/www/home.html">Carnegie-Mellon's Women in SCS</a><p>

<dd>Includes transcripts from the
Workshop on Academic Careers for Women held at FCRC in San Diego in
1993, and information on how to apply to the <!WA95><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/org/women/www/systers-info.html">Systers</a> mailing list.<P>