1998 WORKING WOMEN 500
LIST
Internet Prospector, July 1998 (update 9/11/99)
Editor's Note: the Working Women 500 list is no longer
available on WomenConnect.com. However, this site is too important for
us to pull because of a broken link. Instead, see WomenConnect's growing
list of biographical
profiles.
http://www.womenconnect.com/
BIOGRAPHIES OF
WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS
It's not true that women can't do math -- and the students at Agnes
Scott College are out to prove it with their Web site. The information
ranges from brief comments to nicely detailed biographies, with photos.
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
CELEBRATION OF
WOMEN IN ENGINEERING
Internet Prospector, December '98
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to appreciate this
Web site. Visit the Gallery of Women Engineers where, each
week, you will find two new honorees. You can also browse
the gallery or search by name, field or keyword.
The bios on this Web site are extensive and also are
self-reported. You'll get not only the resume, but also a
sense of the person’s feelings, hopes and dreams. It's a
great place to do research--and you can even nominate one
of those outstanding female engineers in your own database
for inclusion in the gallery.
http://www.nae.edu/nae/cwe/cwe.nsf/Homepage/
CONTRIBUTIONS OF
WOMEN TO PHYSICS
Internet Prospector, October '98
To commemorate the 100th birthday of the American Physical Society,
the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics and the Forum on the History
of Physics of the APS are co- sponsoring a compilation of a historical
archive of women who have done important work in the field of physics.
It's not complete -- accomplishments that have taken place since 1975 are
not included -- due, they say, to limitations of time and money. But the
site does feature an impressive gathering of biographical information on
female physicists. Let's hope those pesky time and money problems get taken
care of!
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/
INDIATIME WOMEN
Internet Prospector, July 1998
Discover Who’s Who among women in India and link to women’s organizations,
magazines and business resources at this division of the larger Indiatime
Web site.
http://www.indiatime.com/women/women.htm
INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE
OF WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE
Internet Prospector, September '96
The IAWA was established in 1985 at Virginia Tech. The purpose of the
program is to document the history of women's involvement in architecture
by collecting, preserving, storing, and making available the professional
papers of women architects around the world. The IAWA Directory lists brief
information on its members.
http://scholar2.lib.vt.edu/spec/iawa/a-z/a.html
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY
OF WOMEN'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
Internet Prospector, July '97
Indexed by region then country, this directory provides brief facts
on each country and the name, title, address and phone for each leader.
This is the 1995 Fourth Edition compiled by Deborah Welbourn Poulin.
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/
GovernmentPolitics/InternationalDirectory/
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S
AIR & SPACE MUSEUM
Internet Prospector, April '98
Did you know that Napoleon appointed a woman as his Chief Air Minister
of Ballooning in 1804? Or that Wilbur and Orville Wright had a sister who
was vital to her brothers' accomplishments? Find biographies of NASA's
first female astronaut trainees, known as the Mercury 13, and other heroines
of air and space, including Bessie Coleman, Jacqueline Cochran and Sally
Ride -- this was in 1961, folks!
http://iwasm.org
MEET THE WOMEN
OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME
Internet Prospector, October '96
Mini-biographies of 125 remarkable women - living and dead -- are featured
in this site. The living include Bella Abzug, Gwendolyn Brooks, astronauts
Eileen Collins, Mae Jemison and Sally Ride, Elizabeth Dole, Marian Wright
Edelman, Nobel prize winners Gertrude Belle Elion and Rosalyn Yalow, Geraldine
Ferraro, Betty Friedan, philanthropist Helen Hunt, Judge Constance Baker
Motley, and stockbroker Muriel Siebert
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/womeninbusiness/fame.html
NATIONAL FIRST LADIES
LIBRARY
Internet Prospector, March '98
In a unique marriage of sorts, the National First Ladies Library is
linked to biographies of the 43 First Ladies (and to those of their husbands,
the U.S. Presidents) on the official White House site at www.whitehouse.gov.
The NFLL also provides bibliographic descriptions of over 40,000 resources
-- books, letters, articles and manuscripts -- for those researching the
lives of these fascinating women beyond what they wore and what kind of
china they picked out. The site came online on February 23rd, when Hillary
Clinton accessed her own bibliography at a press conference.
Also available at the site are bios of the Library's Executive Advisor
and two Vice Presidents.
The National First Ladies Library has a physical location in Canton,
Ohio. The research facility and educational center, the only one of its
kind, will be dedicated in June 1998.
http://firstladies.org
WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
Internet Prospector, Updated March '98
Some 6,000 members strong, Women In Technology International has provided
resources for women since 1989. Visit the Hall of Fame for profiles of
technological leaders ranging from director of the Mars Exploration Program
to an IBM Fellow with more than 40 years of computer programming experience.
http://www.witi.org
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL CENTER
Internet Prospector, February '96
A nonprofit organization dedicated to "acknowledging, honoring, encouraging
and educating women," this center's website has bios of about 100 (mostly)
women, living and dead, famous and not-so. Names include Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Joan Embery, Sally Ride and Maya Angelou.
http://www.wic.org/bio/idex_bio.htm
WOMEN OF NASA
Internet Prospector, October '95
Read testimonials on how women who work in the celestial world of space
vehicles and astrophysics got to where they are today. One woman notes
that when she arrived at NASA she was told, There's space. Do something
significant.
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/WON.html
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