Exploring Women's Careers:
A Guided Internet Search
Exploring
Your Future in Math and Science -
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~karavan/afl/home.html
- Find the salary for three Scientific Fields you might be interested
in and then find salaries for three non-scientific fields. Are there differences?
If so, why do you think these differences exist ?
Expect the Best
From a Girl
http://www.academic.org
- Find a summer program you could attend. List the specifics of the
program and why you might want to attend. Find 2 facts of interest to you
from "Facts about Women and Work".
Girl Games,
Inc.
http://www.girlgamesinc.com
- Find and select the Mentor Archive! section and click on one of
the picture icons to meet a mentor whose job are you might be interested
in. List her accomplishments and comment on anything you found interesting
or something about the job you didn't already know.
Real-time
conversation with the Women of NASA
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/webchat/won-chat.html
- Scroll through the Chat Schedule and find a mentor whose job you
would be interested in reading about, or look at several before deciding
on one. Be able to explain what she does in her job and what advice does
she give.
Invention Dimension
http://web.mit.edu/invent/
- Select a female inventor from "Inventor of the Week Archives"
and be able to explain what she invented and its application.
Additional Sites for Possible Activities:
TAP
Junior
http://www.cs.yale.eud/homes/tap/tap-junior.html#her-online
Club Girl Tech
http://www.girltech.com
Created: 2/21/97
Last Revision: 2/23/97