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Women in Business by Marcia Conner

With all the mega-women's portals, I have yet to find a single source of solid information for and about women in business that's reliable to navigate and easy to access. As a result, I've put together this list of resources for myself and anyone else who will find the resources valuable. Think I'm missing something? Let me know! By no means is this a comprehensive list of all the valuable information and resources for women in business. These are just things I've found helpful to me. If you send another suggestion, tell me how it helped you! Enjoy.

Organizations

Association for Women in Computing (AWC) is a national, nonprofit, professional organization for individuals with an interest in information technology. AWC is dedicated to the advancement of women in the computing fields, in business, industry, science, education and government. AWC's purpose is to provide opportunities for professional growth through networking and through programs on technical and career-oriented topics.

With 4,300 member organizations, the Business Women's Network is the leading directory of women's business associations in the United States and abroad, reaching 38.7 million women.

Canadian Women's Business Network is an organization that promotes and supports women owned businesses. The site provides great business resources including many links to information on business creation, development, and marketing in Canada, on the Net and around the world. The CWBN's Women's Business Directory is a listing or women owned businesses from all over the world. Each entry in the directory includes the business contact information including URL, as well as a brief description of their product and/or services.

Catalyst is the leading U.S. nonprofit research and advisory organization working to advance women in business. This site includes the ability to search studies, corporate board placement, and management advisory services.

Center for Women and Enterprise (CWE) is a regional economic development organization, with offices in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. CWE's mission is to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship. CWE offers courses, workshops, individualized consulting, and access to debt and equity capital to entrepreneurs at every stage of business development.

Executive Women International is a forum for professional development and lifelong learning, dedicated to the personal and professional growth of businesswomen and their firms.

Forum for Women Entrepeneurs (FWE) is the premier entrepreneurial organization for women building and leading high-growth technology and life science companies. FWE's mission is to accelerate women's opportunities to start, build, manage and invest in market-leading companies. FWE is headquartered in the Bay Area and has regional offices in Seattle, Colorado, Texas, San Diego and Los Angeles. In 2000, FWE members raised over $660MM in funding for their companies.

Institute for Women's Leadership provides leadership training and maintains a global network of women from corporations, emerging businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and the public sector who are committed to making a difference with their lives.

Founded in 1972, the National Association for Female Executives is the largest dues-paying member organization for businesswomen, serving 125,000 women in the United States.

The National Foundation for Women Business Owners (NFWBO) offers reports and support for women launching their own business.

National Women's Business Council is a bi-partisan Federal government council created to serve as an independent source of advice and counsel to the President, Congress, U.S. Small Business Administration, and the Interagency Committee on Women's Business on economic issues of importance to women business owners. Members of the Council are prominent women business owners and leaders of women's business organizations.

SBA's Office of Women's Business Ownership strives to be an advocate for current and potential women business owners throughout the federal government and in the private sector. The office provides a network of training, counseling and mentoring services to help women start and/or expand businesses. It offers information about national and local resources and programs for women entrepreneurs.

Springboard2000 is a national initiative designed to increase the investment channels for women entrepreneurs and facilitate investments in women-led firms by corporate, angel and venture investors across the United States. They also create events for women entrepeneurs launching a business or seeking funding for their existing business.

Wired Woman Society is a Canadian non-profit society. The organization has an on-line magazine and regular training sessions and is dedicated to teaching women about the opportunities in the new media industries and creating a comfortable space for women to learn and exchange information about digital technology. Wired Woman is for women who want to be part of the future. For women who want to know more about what the future will bring.

WITI (Women in Technology International) is an organization with over 6000 members, dedicated to: increasing the number of women in executive roles, helping women become more financially independent and technology-literate, and encouraging young women to choose careers in science and technology. WITI helps women develop the core competencies in demand by all levels of technology organizations and brings women to the attention of organizations and boards looking for strong talent. WITI is also the sponsor of conferences such as The Business of Technology and Channels for Change.

Women's Technology Cluster (WTC) is, a project of the Three Guineas Fund, is the first high-tech incubator focused on helping women entrepreneurs.

The Women'sVision Foundation is dedicated to supporting the careers of corporate women. They provide a curriculum of programs, resources, and events specifically designed to guide, maintain, and elevate women in corporate environments. Ultimately, the focus is on building stronger corporations through the integration of women's perspectives into the hierarchy.

WorkLife Congress 2001 is an event focused on living to work, and working to live.

Websites

Advancing Women is dedicated to helping women network about workplace issues. This site contains the Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, articles about workplace issues, as well as money and investing advice. (While the site isn't formatted as beautifully as some of the others, this site really has terrific information within its pages.)

Chickclick isnot your mother's website. ChickClick is a hub for female-centered websites with attitude. It covers everyone from gamegirls to girlies, skateboarders to breakup girl.

GirlGeeks is the first career, training & empowerment community on the web for aspiring young women in computing, the Internet and information technology.

Herspace.com is a creative space promoting and supporting female artists.

iVillage's dedicated area on work: www.ivillage.com/work/

Oxygen Media: www.oxygen.com

Pleiades is a place online for women to convene and share ideas in a comfortable and engaging environment. Their goal is to create a community of women who share their knowledge and experience to help each other learn and grow as individuals. Resources include section on Internet tools, book, movie and website reviews, discussion forums, directory of women's organizations and businesses, calendar of events and a classified section.

She's Got it Together: www.shesgotittogether.com

Webgrrls is the international online and offline community for women interested in new media, the Internet and technology. It offers networking, meetings, classes and job opportunities.

Women.com: www.women.com

WWW Women's Sports Page is a fantastic source index of links to women's and girls' sports pages around the world wide web.

Working Mother Website

Women@Work has been cited by US News as one of four key resources for women. Resources include articles, book reviews and magazines of interest to women, a directory of women's resources and services, and section on health and fitness.

Women's Wire provides a great place for women from around the world to connect with one another. They cover everything from news to health, fitness to fashion, money to entertainment, work to shopping. Women's Wire is informative, provocative and amusing. Interactive features (news, articles, polls, chats, discussion forums, quizzes, web links) change all the time.

Magazines

Working Woman is a terrific magazine providing news, trends, information and insights into the workplace for business women. It emphasizes a life that balances career and family, edited specifically for women executives, managers and entrepreneurs. Marcia is partial to the statistics and quotations on the on the back page. Subscribe to Working Women at the guaranteed lowest price.

Working Mother focuses on work and life issues for career-committed mothers. Subscribe to Working Mother or visit their website at www.workingmother.com.

Articles

I haven't spent much time adding articles here. If you have one you'd suggest I add, please let me know. For articles on many other topics.

Women Who Think Differently by Kendra Mayfield. Wired Magazine, April 24, 2001. "Julie Wainwright, CEO of Pets.com, rose to fame when her company's sock puppet became a sensation. When Carly Fiorina was named CEO of Hewlett-Packard, her name glossed the pages of industry magazines worldwide. Last year, the nonprofit San Francisco Women on the Web chose Fiorina and Wainwright as two of their high-profile Top 25 Women on the Web. But after a tumultuous year of dot-com shakeouts, the names topping this year's list aren't just CEOs and Internet celebrities, but behind-the-scenes designers, producers, activists, educators and technology pioneers."

creating a life By Dayna Macy. Salon Magazine. [09/10/97] Women writers talk about motherhood, ambition, taking chances and making time for both kids and work.

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