Want to know more

about science, or women in science?

General science topics

• FASTS (The Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies) has a page of links to other science and technology sites
• Association for Women in Science - NZ (AWIS)
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) - Quantum
• ABC Radio National - Science Programmes
• Australian Geological Survey Organisation  
• Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services - Office of Women
• Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Heritage
• Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
• Department of Industry, Science and Resources - Science and Technology Advisory Branch (STAB)
• National Health & Medical Research Council (NH&MRC)
• Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA)
• Australian Academy of Science
• Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• Australian Geoscience Information Association (AGIA)
• Australian Government, Office of the Gene Technology Regulator
• Australian Science Olympiads
• British Council feature on women in science, engineering and technology (SET): information on policies, initiatives and actions that open the doors
• Catalyst seeks a world that supports and encourages every woman in her career aspirations.
• Her Lab in Your Life - Women in Chemistry
• IT Skills Hub - Information about the huge range of IT&T careers and job opportunities available and the skills needed to get into these jobs
• Monash University Memo: Post-Maternity-leave research grants
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard – Autobiography
• Pandora Archive - Preserving and accessing networked documentary resources of Australia.
• Petroleum Exploration Society Australia (PESA)
• Window on Women: an Australian Government Website for statistical data.
   
• Sue Lewis
      National Centre for Women, Swinburne University of Technology,
      PO Box 218, Hawthorn 3122
      Tel: 03 9214 8644
      suelewis@swin.edu.au

• Association of Women in Science and Technology (U.K.)
• Young Scientists of Australia. An organisation of young people interested in science.
• Women in Endocrinlogy (Australian Branch) - contact Dr Cathie Coulter, Department of Physiology, University of Adelaide, SA, catherine.coulter@adelaide.edu.au
• Next Wave - an electonic network for the next generation of scientists
• University of Sydney Eureka Schools Prize for Biological Sciences
• 4000 Years of Women in Science - from the University of Alabama, USA
• Women in Science in the European Union
• PBS on line: People and discoveries. This site includes some good women, e.g. Rosalind Franklin, Rachel Carson.
• Dorothy Hodgkin
• Euroscience On-line publications on women in science
• INSTRAW - The United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
• United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
• United Nations Gender Advisory Board.
  
   

Women Achieving in Science Conference

Summaries and outcomes. This conference was held at RMIT in November 1999. Papers are gone from previous location on Web.

Photo by Scott Bauer. Courtesy Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, from their image gallery, http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/index.html

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