Balancing The Equation: Where are Women & Girls in Science, Engineering & Technology? Researched and published by The National Council for Research on Women. Read the executive summary of this valuable resource guide online. www.ncrw.org/publications/pubs.htm

Cool Careers for Girls in Engineering by Ceel Pasternak, et al (Paperback - September 1999). www.amazon.com

Cool Careers for Girls in Computers (Cool Careers for Girls Series) by Ceel Pasternak, Linda Thornburg. www.amazon.com

"Discover Engineering Through Reading." Browse through the list of books geared toward all different age groups with topics like career guidance, space, engineering, science fiction, and more. www.eweek.org/2002/Library/reading.shtml

From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers is a report by the Committee on Women in Science and Engineering (CWSE) and is available on the National Academies web site.
www.nationalacademies.org

Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children by American Association of University Women. www.amazon.com

InGEAR Professional Development Manual For Gender Equity in Collegiate Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Education. www.ceismc.gatech.edu/ceismc/programs/ingear/
homepg.htm

Visit AWSEM's Gender Equity site to read some compelling facts, articles, and an annotated bibliography, which focus on gender equity in the world of science. The articles included are, In Their Nature: Compelling Reasons to Engage Girls in Science and Gender Equity and Mentorship in Science, Engineering and Mathematics: 1997 and they can be found at www.awsem.com

The Journal of Technology Education is a place for scholarly discussions and offers manuscripts that focus on the research, philosophy, and theory of technology in education. Also offered are book reviews, editorials, guest articles, literature reviews, and reactions to past articles.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/

Mothers and Daughters of Invention by Autumn Stanley (Hardcover - August 1994). www.amazon.com

Setting the Record Straight: The History and Evolution of Women's Professional Achievement in Engineering by Betty Reynolds and Jill Tietjen. www.amazon.com

Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher (Hardcover - December 2001).
www.amazon.com

Women and the Machine: Representations From the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age by Julie Wosk. The book includes over 150 photographs, illustrations, cartoons, art works, and other images that reveal the ways women have overcome stereotypes and skepticism about their mechanical abilities over the past three centuries. It includes chapters on women and electricity, women and automobiles, women and aviation, women working in wartime, and other material. This book is not to be missed. Find it at www.amazon.com

Women's Science: Learning and Succeeding from the Margins by Margaret A. Eisenhart, Elizabeth Finkel (Paperback - November 1998). www.amazon.com

You Can be a Woman Engineer by Judith Love Cohen. Also has other non-traditional careers for women. Good for classroom. www.cascadepass.com/brochure.html

 

Archives of Women in Science and Engineering

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Society of Women Engineers Archives.
www.reuther.wayne.edu
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