List of organizations for women in science

This is a list of organizations for women in science and, more generally, the "STEM" fields (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)
• Equality for HER (HER)
• European Platform of Women Scientists
• Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS)
• Third World Organization for Women in Science
• The Scientista Foundation
• Women In Bio (WIB)
• Women in Science International Trust (WISIL)
• WomenTechWorld
• 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
• Association for Women in Computing
• 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
• IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE)
• LinuxChix
• National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
• Systers
• Women in Technology International
• Women Techmakers
• WorldWIT (closed in 2007)
• WOUGNET (Women of Uganda Network)

Earth sciences

• Association for Women Geoscientists

Mathematics

• Association for Women in 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)

Social sciences

• Society of Woman Geographers

Sociology

• Sociologists for Women in Society

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)
• WISET (Republic of Korea support for Women In Science, Engineering and Technology)

North America

• American Association of University Women (AAUW; founded 1881)
• Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
• Committee on Women in Science and Engineering (CWSE), National Research Council of the National Academies
• The Scientista Foundation (founded 2011)
• DC Web Women (Washington, D.C.)
• Graduate Women in Science (GWIS; also known as Sigma Delta Epsilon) (multiple national chapters)
• Harvard Women in Chemistry (HWIC)
• Harvard Women in Physics (HWIP)
• National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (National IWITTS)
• RUWINS (Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ)
• Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology (WEST)
• Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR) (founded 1989)
• Women Techmakers North Jersey (Montclair, NJ)

Regional or international

• Third World Organization for Women in Science

United Kingdom

• ScienceGrrl
• Women Rock Science (London, England)

See also

• List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in science

Further reading

• List of women's science organizations: NIS-WIST National Institute for Supporting Women in Science and Technology