I am a journalist/researcher writing about women and the Internet. Where can I find data or other information about the current situation of women and information technology?
Check CWIT’s Quick Facts on Women and Information Technology (a Word document). This 6-page document brings together much useful data about women and IT, both in the United States and internationally. Another good source of information about women and IT are CWIT’s listings of women-related web sites focusing on science and technology and on cyberculture and internet information. You might also take a look at CWIT’s frequently-updated section News About Women and IT. A number of the news articles deal with women in IT businesses and with women’s Internet use. If you’re looking for more in-depth discussion of women and IT, you may find CWIT’s extensive bibliography of Books About Women and IT quite useful. It contains more than 100 entries and provides links to reviews, descriptions, author interviews, book web sites, and anything else that may help you decide whether the work is what you’re looking for. Demographic data about women and IT can also be found on several demographics sites
