Previous Article / Next Article

Resources: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

• Girl Geeks (www.girlgeeks.org). This Web site is an online community for women and girls interested in technology and computing. It includes career information, personal success stories, profiles of role models, technical tips, and an extensive list of other resources and programs.
  
  
• Roadmaps and Rampways: Profiles of Students with Disabilities in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (http://ehrweb.aaas.org/rr/index.html). On this Web site are personal stories of 11 young women with disabilities pursuing careers and higher education in science, math, engineering and technology fields. They participated in the Entry Point! Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a program offering internship opportunities in those fields for students with disabilities (see www.entrypoint.org).
  
  
• IBM Women in the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame (www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/witexhibit/wit_hall.html). Included in this online Hall of Fame are video clips and the transcript from an interview with Chieko Asakawa, who is responsible for the research and development of IBM software and applications that significantly improve Web accessibility for people with visual impairments and other disabilities. She became blind as a teenager, and has been doing computer accessibility research since the 1980s.
  
  

Top

Previous Article / Next Article
__________

Retrieved from the Web site of the Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota (http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/211/default.html). Citation: Parent, W., Foley, S., Balcazar, F., Ely, C., Bremer, C. & Gaylord, V. (Eds.). (Summer/Fall 2008). Impact: Feature Issue on Employment and Women With Disabilities, 21(1). [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration].
__________

Hard copies of Impact are available from the Publications Office of the Institute on Community Integration. The first copy of this issue is free; additional copies are $4 each. You can request copies by phone at 612/624-4512 or e-mail at icipub@umn.edu, or you can fax or mail us an order form. See our listing of other issues of Impact for more information.

The PDF version of this Impact, with photos and graphics, is also online at http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/211/211.pdf.

The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.