List of organizations for women in science
This is a list of organizations for women in science and, more generally; science, technology, engineering, and math.
General STEM-oriented groups
(science, technology, engineering, and math)
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
- European Platform of Women Scientists
- Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World
- Society of Women Engineers
Subject-specific groups
- Computing and Information Technology
- Ada Initiative
- Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Women
- BCSWomen, a specialist group of the British Computer Society
- Black Girls Code
- BlogHer
- Center for Women in Technology
- Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W)
- DC Web Women
- Girl Geek Dinners
- LinuxChix
- National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
- Systers
- Women in Technology International
- WorldWIT (closed in 2007)
- WOUGNET (Women of Uganda Network)
- Earth sciences
- Mathematics
- Medical sciences
- American Association for Women Radiologists
- American Medical Women's Association
- Association of Women Surgeons
- Kappa Epsilon (founded 1921 to promote woman pharmacists)
- Medical Women's International Association (est. 1919)
- Social sciences
- Sociology
Location-specific organizations
- Africa
- Women'sNet (South African support for women activists using technology)
- WOUGNET (Women of Uganda Network)
- Asia & South Pacific
- WomensHub (Philippines support for women activists using technology)
- North America
- American Association of University Women (AAUW; founded 1881)
- Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
- DC Web Women (Washington, D.C.)
- Graduate Women in Science (GWIS; also known as Sigma Delta Epsilon) (multiple national chapters)
- Regional or international
See also
Further reading
- List of women's science organizations: NIS-WIST National Institute for Supporting Women in Science and Technology
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