Girls & Women in Science and Engineering
Women in Computer Science: Getting involved in STEM
Great online article for teachers; parents; guidance counselors, and girls interested in the Computer fields.
http://www.computerscience.org/resources/women-in-computer-science/
FabFems
Find role models from around the world
http://www.fabfems.org/
STEM Role Models
http://www.stemrolemodels.org/
GoGrad: Women and Master's Degrees
​Includes profiles of women; their degrees; some historical background; and has a lot of information about getting a graduate degree, particularly using online resources.
http://www.gograd.org/women-and-masters-degrees/
Women in Tech
See up to date information on how money are changing the face of Information Technology
http://www.mbaonline.com/women-in-tech/
List of Women Inventors (good list, but commercial site with Pop Ups)
http://inventors.about.com/library/blwomeninventors.htm
Girls Go Tech, from the Girl Scouts
http://www.girlsgotech.org/
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities Tapping the Talent
An agenda for action for business to increase the talent available to them by encouraging more young women into science, engineering and technology. (1996)
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/orgs/opp2000/
Association for Women in Mathematics
http://www.awm-math.org home webpage
http://www.awm-math.org/education.html educational web page
Society of Women Engineers
www.societyofwomenengineers.org
Others to add:
Diane Fossey, Gorilla researcher and advocate
Merit-Ptah, physician, 2700 BCE
Nancy Grace Roman, 1925, American astronomer
Rachel Carson, 1907, Marine biologist, author, conservationist
Dorothy Hodgkin, 1910, Nobel prize winning British Biochemist
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, 1947, Irish astrophysicist
Sally Ride, 1951, American physicist and astronaut. First American woman in space.
Great online article for teachers; parents; guidance counselors, and girls interested in the Computer fields.
http://www.computerscience.org/resources/women-in-computer-science/
FabFems
Find role models from around the world
http://www.fabfems.org/
STEM Role Models
http://www.stemrolemodels.org/
GoGrad: Women and Master's Degrees
​Includes profiles of women; their degrees; some historical background; and has a lot of information about getting a graduate degree, particularly using online resources.
http://www.gograd.org/women-and-masters-degrees/
Women in Tech
See up to date information on how money are changing the face of Information Technology
http://www.mbaonline.com/women-in-tech/
List of Women Inventors (good list, but commercial site with Pop Ups)
http://inventors.about.com/library/blwomeninventors.htm
Girls Go Tech, from the Girl Scouts
http://www.girlsgotech.org/
Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities Tapping the Talent
An agenda for action for business to increase the talent available to them by encouraging more young women into science, engineering and technology. (1996)
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/orgs/opp2000/
Association for Women in Mathematics
http://www.awm-math.org home webpage
http://www.awm-math.org/education.html educational web page
Society of Women Engineers
www.societyofwomenengineers.org
Others to add:
Diane Fossey, Gorilla researcher and advocate
Merit-Ptah, physician, 2700 BCE
Nancy Grace Roman, 1925, American astronomer
Rachel Carson, 1907, Marine biologist, author, conservationist
Dorothy Hodgkin, 1910, Nobel prize winning British Biochemist
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, 1947, Irish astrophysicist
Sally Ride, 1951, American physicist and astronaut. First American woman in space.
Ada Lovelace, born in 1815 in England, Ada was a mathematician and worked closely with Charles Babbage on programming the Difference Engine, the first advanced mechanical computer.
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Margaret Knight, born in York Maine in 1838 invented, among other things, the square bottomed paper shopping bag. See the original patent at the USPTO website. |
The ENIAC Programmers of the 1940 and 50s.
Kay McNulty, Betty Jean Jennings(Jean Bartik), Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman (not all shown in image). |
Lilian Gilbreth, born in 1878 in Oakland California, married Frank Gilbreth of Fairfield Maine. Lillian was arguably one of the earliest practicing woman engineers in the United States and earned numerous degrees including her Ph.D. from Brown University.
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Helen Blanchard, born in Portland Maine in 1840 invented the zig-zag sewing machine and had 28 patents during her career as an inventor.
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Grace Hopper, born in 1906, was one of this countries earliest and most noted computer scientists.
First enlisted in the Navy in 1943 during WWII and while occasionally retired, was finally retired in 1986 after almost 43 years of service and at the rank of Rear Admiral. Hopper worked with the early Harvard Mark I computer and was one of the inventors of the COBOL programming language. |
Inge Lehmann, born 1888 in Denmark. Lehmann studied mathematics and physical science and received a Magisterii (Master's) degree in both of these fields. Lehmann worked in the field of geodetics engineering for most of her career and in 1936 postulated in a paper that the earth had a distinct inner core that was different than the mantle of the earth. It had previously been thought that the entire center of the planet was molten.
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Dr. Jane Morris Goodall, born 1934. The world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. Dr. Goodall has spent over 45 years studying chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, Africa.
www.janegoodall.org |
Sydney Dittman, is on record as being the youngest person to receive a US Patent. Sydney received a patent for an invention that made it easier to grip knobs.
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Mary Leakey, 1913-1996, a British paleoanthropologist. Mary and Louis Leakey are two of the most renown anthropologists. Their work in the Olduvai gorge in Eastern Africa changed the way we think about where we came from as a species.
www.leakeyfoundation.org/the-leakey-family/ |
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