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Resources More Information The Athena Project www.athenaproject.org.uk Joint government/university effort to promote women's participation in science, engineering and technology in the UK. European Commission Science and Society

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Nov 1, 2006 | 5 min read




	Resources

More Information

The Athena Project

www.athenaproject.org.uk

Joint government/university effort to promote women's participation in science, engineering and technology in the UK.

European Commission Science and Society Portal

http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/home_en.cfm

Includes links to most recent She Figures detailing participation of women in science in industry and academia.

Science & Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research

www.nber.org/~sewp

Professors Richard Freeman and Daniel Goroff of Harvard University direct SWEP, which was founded in 2001 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It is a network of labor economists studying workforce issues, and has published a number of papers on women and minorities in the workforce and held a 2005 conference on diversifying the scientific workforce.

Organizations

Association for Women in Science

www.awis.org

Celebrating its 35th birthday this year, AWIS is dedicated to women and girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and calls itself "a Network, a Resource,...

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