Useful links

4000 years of women in science: http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/

Association for Science Education: http://www.ase.org.uk/

Athena Forum: http://www.athenaforum.org.uk/index.htm

ATHENA SWAN – Charter for Women in Science: http://www.athenaswan.org.uk/html/athena-swan/

British Association for the Advancement of science: http://www.britassoc.org.uk/

Cambridge AWISE: http://camawise.org.uk/

Career profiles:

• Working in Physics: http://www.iop.org/careers/workinglife/articles/page_39025.html
• Once in physics: http://www.iop.org/careers/workinglife/profiles/page_37975.html

Carers Fund: http://www.iop.org/policy/diversity/initiatives/carers/page_48989.html

The Daphne Jackson Trust (for returners): www.daphnejackson.org

• Case study at http://www.daphnejackson.org/fellowships/Case%20Study/

Elizabeth Johnson Memorial Lecture: http://www.iop.org/policy/diversity/initiatives/lecture/page_42787.html

EPWS news: http://www.epws.net/

Equality Challenge Unit - Gender: http://www.ecu.ac.uk/subjects/gender

European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS): http://www.epws.org/ 

Information on current and past female physicists:

• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics: http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_physicists
• Médiathèque Scientifique de l'institut Pasteur: http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/biblio/expos/femmes/index.php (webpage in French)
• Women's History: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sciencephysics/Women_and_Physics_Female_Physicists.htm

IOP diversity: http://www.iop.org/policy/diversity/index.html

IUPAP working group on Women in Physics: http://www.iupap.org/wg/wip/

L’Oreal-UNESCO awards and fellowships: http://www.unesco.org.uk/l'or%C3%A9al-unesco_for_women_in_science_programme

MentorSET: National Mentoring Scheme for Women in SET: www.mentorset.org.uk

• Case studies at http://www.mentorset.org.uk/pages/casestudies.htm

PORTIA: Gateway for Women in SET: http://www.portiaweb.org.uk/

Project JUNO: http://www.iop.org/policy/diversity/initiatives/juno/

Royal Institution: http://www.ri.ac.uk/

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship: http://royalsociety.org/grants/schemes/dorothy-hodgkin/

Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award: http://royalsociety.org/awards/rosalind-franklin-award/

Science and Engineering Ambassadors: http://www.stemnet.org.uk/content/ambassadors

ScienceGrrl – a network of (mainly) female scientists passionate about passing on their love of STEM to the next generation: www.sciencegrrl.co.uk.

STEMNET: http://www.stemnet.org.uk/

The UKRC / WISE - Resource Centre for women in SET: http://www.theukrc.org/

WES - Women's Engineering Society: http://www.wes.org.uk

WISET – Women in Science Engineering and Technology: http://www.wiset.org.uk/

Women of Outstanding Achievement Awards and previous winners: http://theukrc.org/women/women-of-outstanding-achievement