Careers

Resources in this category:

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.

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.

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."

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.

4000 Years of Women in Science
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/

Features biographical information of over 100 women inventors, scholars, writers, mathematicians and astronomers throughout recorded history.

The Glass Ceiling Commission
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/keyWorkplaceDocuments/gov...

Assorted PDF-formatted 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 (in the United States specifically).

The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: a Bibliographic Guide to the Professions and the Disciplines
http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/bibliogs/hws/hws.htm

Offers extensive bibliographies about women in science, including 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.

IEEE Women-In-Engineering Home Page
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/committee/women/index.html

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.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts
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. Artist profiles feature the lives of selected women artists and corresponding bibliographies lead you to new sources of information."

Online Women's Business Center
http://www.onlinewbc.gov/

"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.

SAWNET Bookshelf
http://www.sawnet.org/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!

The Victorian Women Writers Project
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.

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.

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.

Women, Enterprise, and Society
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wes/

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.