Gender Websites, Listservs, and Portals

IGNITE (Inspiring Girls Now in Technology Evolution) ) is a Seattle-based initiative that has been steadily exposing teenage girls to the high- tech industry in an effort to inspire girls to consider high-tech as a positive career choice.
http://www.ignite-us.org/about_IGNITE.htm

Center for Gender Equity at University of California, San Francisco includes an annotated, frequently updated listing of publicly accessible discussion forums related to women or women-focused gender issues. Links include information on sexual and domestic violence, self defense, LGBT issues, and resources for women and men.
http://www.ucsf.edu/cge

Gender Wage Study provides information on current labor market conditions, with breakdowns by age, gender, occupation, education level, etc.
http://www.iowaworkforce.org/lmi/publications/genderwagestudy

MentorNet is a nonprofit e-mentoring network addressing retention and success particularly of women in engineering, science and mathematics.
http://www.mentornet.net

Success Strategies for Engaging Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a website that offers downloadable resources of the STEM webcast.
http://www.saturdayacademy.org

Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity contains links to information on sexual harassment and gender equity from a variety of sources on the Internet.
http://library.uncg.edu/depts/docs/us/harassment.asp

TECH Equity Project is a federally funded program that promotes the development of standards- and project-based, gender equitable lesson plans through curriculum-planning trainings for middle and high school math, science.
http://www.techequity.org/index.html

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