Useful Links

• Read about Systers, the world's largest email community of technical women in computing. It was founded by Anita Borg in 1987 and it promotes the interests of women in the technology and computing fields, irrespective of their stage in career.
  


• The Society of Women Engineers or SWE as it is popularly known, is a non-profit educational and service organization. USF belongs to the Golden Gate section of SWE. The two chartered student sections of SWE in this region are UCB and SFSU. Students from Santa Rosa Community College function as a special interest group within this section.


• Computing Reasearch Assosciation's Commitee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) strives to increase the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering research and education at all levels.
  


• Having a family is considered to be one of the main reasons PhD women do not follow an academic career. Mary Ann Mason's latest book from Oxford University Press titled Do babies matter?, addresses the issues of women in fast-track professions of academia, business, law and meicine. Mary Ann Mason is Dean of Graduate Division at UC Berkeley.
  


• The presentation "Improving the Graduate School Environment for Women in Computer Science" by Soheila Bana and Soha Hassoun, provides an interesting read.
  


• "Culture and Environment as Determinants of Women's participation in Computing" by Lenore Blum, Carol Frieze, Orit Hazzan and Bernardine Dias, claim that culture and enviroment are the main reasons for the low number of women entering the field of CS, and not the gender factor.
  


• A very comprehensive list of resources related to Women and Computing collected by Dr.Henderson of Butler University.