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Women-Related Science & Technology Resources

The following annotated, frequently-updated sections of Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites and Gender-Related Electronic Forums include many links to sites focusing on women or girls and information technology, and to e-mail forums devoted to those issues (date indicates most recent update):

Web Sites for Girls and Young Women
Includes many sites promoting girls' use of technology (07/13/07)

Women-Related Cyberculture & Net Info Web Sites
Women-related information about Cyberculture and/or the Internet (09/18/07)

Women-Related Web Sites in Science/Technology
Links to women-related articles, sites, and projects concerned with science/technology, including many focusing on information technology (02/07/08)

Women-Related Science/Technology E-mail Lists
Descriptions of >40 e-mail discussion forums (08/16/07)

Also of interest:

Women'space, a bilingual (English/French) quarterly from Canada devoted exclusively to women and the Internet. A great place to learn about women's activism on/about the Internet.

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources. Each issue includes information about new women-related e-mail lists and web sites, as well as web site reviews.


The following academic programs focus on gender and science/technology:

Technology, Gender, and Diversity
A 15-credit minor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology

Women, Science, and Technology
A 10-course undergraduate minor at Georgia Tech

Gender, Science, and Technology
A 16-credit undergraduate minor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Women and Science
A 6-course undergraduate minor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Wired Women's Studies
Undergraduate and graduate program, University of York, England

Gender and Technology
Division within the Department of Human Work Science, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Please send all additions and corrections to Joan Korenman.