List of organizations for women in science

This is a list of notable organizations for women in science and, more generally; science, technology, engineering, and math.

General STEM-oriented groups

International groups who cover the general topics of science, technology, engineering, and math.

• 500 Women Scientists
• American Association of University Women (AAUW)
• AnitaB.org
• Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
• European Platform of Women Scientists
• Girl Geek Dinners
• Graduate Women in Science (GWIS; formerly known as Sigma Delta Epsilon)
• International Network of Women in Engineering and Sciences
• Kovalevskaia Fund
• Laboratoria
• Outreachy
• Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World
• Stemettes
• Systers
• Women in Technology International
• WomenTech Network

Subject-specific groups

International groups who focus on specific topics.

Computing and Information Technology

• AnitaB.org
• Association for Women in Computing
• BCSWomen, a specialist group of the British Computer Society
• Black Girls Code
• BlogHer
• Center for Women in Technology
• Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP)
• DC Web Women
• Django Girls
• Girl Geek Dinners
• Girls Who Code
• Ladies of Code
• LinuxChix
• National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
• Native Girls Code
• Portland Women in Technology (PDX WIT)
• Pyladies
• R-Ladies
• Systers
• Tech LadyMafia
• Women in Data
• Women in Technology International

Earth & Geosciences

• Association for Women Geoscientists
• Society of Woman Geographers

Engineering

• Society of Women Engineers (US)
• Women's Engineering Society (UK)

Mathematics

• African Women in Mathematics Association
• Association for Women in Mathematics
• European Women in Mathematics
• Femmes et Mathématiques

Medical sciences

• American Association for Women in Radiology
• American Medical Women's Association
• Association of Women Surgeons
• Kappa Epsilon (founded 1921 to promote woman pharmacists)
• Medical Women's International Association (est. 1919)
• National Association of Women Pharmacists

Physics

• Working Group on Women in Physics

Sociology

• Sociologists for Women in Society

Statistics

• Caucus for Women in Statistics

Location-specific organizations

Africa

Rwanda

• Starlight Africa

Nigeria

• Medical Women's Association of Nigeria
• Women's Technology Empowerment Centre

South Africa

• Women'sNet (South African support for women activists using technology)

Uganda

• WOUGNET (Women of Uganda Network)

Asia

Philippines

• WomensHub (Philippines support for women activists using technology)

Europe

• European Platform of Women Scientists

Ireland

• Teen Turn
• Women in Technology and Science

United Kingdom

• BCSWomen
• GlamSci (organization)
• WISE Campaign

Scotland

• Equate Scotland
• Girl Geek Scotland

North America

United States

• American Association of University Women (AAUW; founded 1881)
• Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
• Girl Develop It

California

• San Francisco Women on the Web

Nevada

• The Diana Initiative

Washington, D.C.

• DC Web Women

Pacific

Australia

• Victorian Medical Women's Society

Inactive organizations

• Ada Initiative (closed 2015)
• Women Who Code (closed in 2024)
• WorldWIT (closed in 2007)

Events

• ACM-W
• African Summit on Women and Girls in Technology

See also

• African-American women in computer science
• African women in engineering
• American Association of University Women
• Diversity in computing
• Gender disparity in computing
• History of women in engineering
• History of women in engineering in the United Kingdom
• Index of women scientists articles
• International Day of Women and Girls in Science
• List of female Nobel laureates
• List of female scientists before the 20th century
• List of female scientists in the 21st century
• List of female scientists in the 20th century
• List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in science
• List of African-American women in STEM fields
• List of inventions and discoveries by women
• List of women's organizations
• List of women in mathematics
• Matilda effect
• Occupational sexism
• STEM pipeline
• Structural inequality in education
• Timeline of women in science
• Timeline of women in science in the United States
• UKRC
• Women in archaeology
• Women in climate change
• Women in chemistry
• Women in computing
• Women in engineering
• Women in engineering in the United States
• Women in medicine
• Women in physics
• Women in science
• Women in STEM fields
• Women in the workforce

External links

• Earth Science Women's Network
• IEEE Women in Engineering
• Girls into Geoscience
• SONAC: Sisterhood of Native American Coders
• PyLadies
• R-Ladies
• Women in Geospatial
• Women in GIS
• Women's Engineering Society
• Women Who Code
• WomenTech Network

References