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• Mama was an engineer - Article on the Sacramento News & Review web site
• Encouraging the Exploration of Engineering PDF
  Sponsored by Microsoft Corporation & Texas Instruments, Incorporated
  Joanne Chang, Alexandra Chau, and Nydia Clayton, Program Directors
• ISU ADVANCE Proposal Writing Initiative: Investigating the Present and Investing in the Future for Women in Science Math, Engineering, and Technology (SMET). PDF
  Jackie Litt, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
  Diane Debinski, Associate Professor of Ecology Evolution and Organismal Biology Co-Chairs,
  Advance Proposal-Writing Team
• Women and Underrepresented Minorities in S&E Fields PDF
  Mary J. Frase
• Exploding Myths About Women in Science and Engineering
  MentorNet News
• Women and Minorities in the Science, Mathematics and Engineering Pipeline. ERIC Digest.
  by Chang, June C.
• A Few Good Women: tech firms want more female computer whizzes
  US News & World Report, August 16/August 23, 2004
• Gray Matter and the Sexes: Still a Scientific Gray Area
  by Natalie Angier and Kenneth Chang
  Kimberlee A. Shauman, a UC Davis sociologist, says that getting a high score on a math aptitude test isn't a good predictor of who will choose a scientific career, expecially for girls.
• According to October 2004 PRISM magazine (ASEE)
  * UC Davis Engineering is SIXTH in the nation with the highest percentage of women faculty members at schools awarding 20 or more doctoral degrees (14.4% in 2003)
  * and SIXTH in the nation with the highest percentage of Doctoral Degrees awarded (29.1% in 2003)
• A Message From a Female CEO
• How Different are Men & Women Engineers?
  Hispanic Magazine Oct/Nov 1998
• Recruiting Women into Computer Science
• Salary Gap Between Male and Female Engineers PDF
• Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?
• Why Women Professionals Miss Great Opportunities
  Wall Street Journal Online February 2004
• Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2002