Online Resources
Useful Sites
Sites created to support and inform Women in Computing:
Carnegie-Mellon University's Women@SCS- includes links to their published papers relating to Women
Computer girl (For high school students)
Computer Science Summer Camps
Dot|Diva - WGBH-ACM New Image for Computing (NIC) project engaging girls 13 - 18
Girl Geeks - online community
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
MentorNet - matches students with ACM Professional Members who act as mentors
TAP (The Ada Project)
Techbridge: Encouraging Girls in Technology
University of California, Berkeley - Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Cambridge - Women @CL
WCAR (Women in Computing Academic Resource)
Webgrrls - Forum to support women in technical careers
Sites which provide annotated and updated links to articles regarding Women in Computing:
EFF "Net Culture - Gender Issues" Archive - archive of past articles in the EFF (organisation to protect digital rights)
Database project - ACM-W's database of articles
Women in IT - regularly updated links to news articles
Women's Studies Online Resources (from the Centre for Women and Information Technology)
Papers and Studies that are particularly useful:
"Unlocking the Clubhouse, Women in Computing" - Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher,CMU
[ACM Digital Library - Free]
"The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline" - Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines
[ACM Digital Library - Free]
Useful online searches to try regarding:
Gender Issues in Computing [ACM Digital Library] [Google] [Google News]
Women in Computing [ACM Digital Library] [Google][Google News]
Related Organizations
Other committees or groups with similar aims or interests:
ABI - Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
AWIS - Association for Women in Science
AAUW - American Association of University Women
Association for Women in Computing
Centre for Women and Information Technology
CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research
FAT - Feminist Approach to Technology, New Delhi, India
Grace Hopper Regional Consortium
IWITTS - Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science
Math/Science Network
NCWIT - National Center for Women & Information Techonolgy
SWE - Society of Women Engineers
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