Information is currently available on the following topics:
Gender Equity Centers
Gender Equity Membership Organizations
Gender Equity Centers
- Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology - http://www.iwt.org/
Develops tools and programs designed to help industry, academia and government recruit, retain and develop women technology leaders.
- Center for Workforce Development - http://www.engr.washington.edu/cwd/
CWD focuses on diversity through research, evaluations, and programmatic initiatives in higher education and the workforce. CWD meets the challenges of the emerging workforce: recruitment, retention, and advancement of women and underrepresented minorities.
- NSF Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) portal - http://research.cs.vt.edu/advance/index.htm
Provides summary information on and links to all NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant recipients
- Center for Equity and Excellence in Education - http://www.ceee.gwu.edu
Advances education reform so that all students achieve high standards; provides evidence-based technical assistance and professional development; conducts research and evaluation studies for state education agencies (SEAs), local education agencies (LEAs), and various offices of the US Department of Education to facilitiate education reform and school improvement initiatives.
- Gender Equity Links – Hunter College - http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/genderequity/relatedlinks.html
ADVANCE pages, reports, articles, other useful links
- National Center for Women in Information Technology - http://www.ncwit.org/
Seeks to educate, disseminate, and advocate a national, multi-year implementation plan that generates tangible progress on achieving gender parity within the IT workforce within 20 years.
- WEEA Equity Resource Center (Equity Online) - http://main.edc.org/theme/schools.asp
Several areas of work in the area of improving schools; includes a link to “Equity and Diversity” for schools; committed to bringing hands-on, inquiry-based learning to people of all ages and backgrounds
- Women in Engineering Leadership Institute - http://www.weli.eng.iastate.edu/
WELI aims to develop a group of highly capable women engineering faculty and ensure that they are prepared to assume academic leadership roles across the country where they can transform engineering education both through their presence and by taking initiative to increase diversity. WELI provides training, mentoring, and networking opportunities to female engineering faculty who aspire to academic leadership in engineering schools.
Gender Equity Membership Organizations
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) - http://www.aauw.org/
Mission of advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research; have educational resources and legal advocacy; link to an online museum of the history of AAUW
- American Society for Engineering Education - Women in Engineering Division - http://wied.asee.org/
Objective is to study, promote and improve the role of women in the professions of engineering and engineering technology through collection of data, publications, presentations at appropriate meetings, sponsorship of conferences, and similar activities. Information on ASEE as a whole is available at http://www.asee.org/index.cfm.
- Association for Gender Equity Leadership in Education (AGELE) - http://www.agele.org/index.cfm?secid=13316&ssecid=0
Mission is to provide leadership in the identification and infusion of gender equity in all educational programs and processes with parallel equity concerns for other groups
- Association of Women in Science (AWIS) - http://www.awis.org/
Non-profit promoting women’s activities in all scientific fields; includes links for mentoring, networking, news, jobs, scholarships
- Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - http://www.swe.org/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=5
Non-profit educational and service organization that encourages women who are already engineers and encourages others to enter engineering; includes educational resources for K-higher ed; professional development resources.
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers - Women in Engineering Committee - http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/committee/women/index.html
Dedicated to inspiring, engaging, encouraging, and empowering IEEE women; awards achievements, networking facilitation, advocate of women in IEEE leadership, supports new and existing chapters; facilitates recruitment and retention programs, administers mentoring program for junior high and high school girls
- Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN) - http://www.wepan.org
Non-profit organization with over 600 members from engineering schools, small and large businesses, and non-profit organizations; dedicated to improving the climate for and success of all women in engineering by transforming environments in institutions of higher education
- National Alliance for Partnership in Equity (NAPE) - http://www.napequity.org/page.php?8
A consortium of state and local agencies, corporations, and national organizations committed to the advancement of equity and diversity in classrooms and workplaces.