Organizations
There are a variety of discipline-specific groups for women in science, as well as national groups in the US and abroad.US Organizations
- Association of Women in Science (AWIS)
- Global Alliance for Diversifying science and engineering
- Graduate Women in Science (GWIS), which has a listserv-based discussion group
- The Bionet Newsgroup Women-in-Bio
- Women in Neuroscience
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
-
Women in Cell Biology committee of the
ASCB (American Society for Cell Biology)
(Disclosure: I'm a member)
- Cte on the advancement of women chemists
- Women in Science and Engineering at the NRC
- Committee on women in science and engineering, National Research Council, including links to organizations supporting women in science
- Women in Technology International
- List of groups related to women in science and engineering.
- Women in Endocrinology
- Women Chemist's Committee of the American Chemical Society
- List of scholarly societies concerned with women's issues
- The Feminist Majority Foundation
- AWSEM: Advocates for women in science, engineering and mathematics.
- American Association of Immunologists Committee on the Status of Women has a database of potential speakers and chairs.
- AXXS: Achieving XXellence in Science is a website from a 1999 workshop sponsored by NIH, ASCB, and others "to explore the roles of scientific societies in advancing science by building the careers of all women in science, form the predoctoral stage to the senior scientist level."
- Association of Women in Mathematics
Groups outside the US
- Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology
- Women in science groups in Europe
- Database of Expert Women in Molecular Life Sciences. The objective is to provide a resource that will promote gender equality in Europe...The database will help scientists, universities, research institutions, political institutions, conference organisers and journal editors to identify appropriately qualified women scientists
- Central Europe women has developed a database of more than 750 highly qualified women scientists from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, and Slovakia.
- Japanese Women in Science
- Biofrauen: German women in biology page (in German)
- TWOWS: Third world organization of women in science
- South African Women in Science
- New Zealand Women in Science
- AWiSE: Association for Women in Science and Technology (UK)
- European Commission Women in Science page
- Arab women in science and an article about them