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AWIS Links

• National AWIS
• AWIS Northern California Chapters (NCC-AWIS)
• San Francisco AWIS (sfAWIS)
• Easy Bay AWIS (ebAWIS)
• Sacramento Valley AWIS (svAWIS)

Events and Jobs Links

• CBA Bioscience
• Audrey's Network -- Networking and Bay area jobs.
• Bio2Device Group Events--Great seminars and networking.
• Healthcare Businesswomen's Association Fantastic Events for networking and and programs.
• BioScience Forum, non-profit, provides educational, monthly Biotech talks, includes dinner
• BayBio, the SF biotech association, offers therapeutic and medical device breakfast meetings
• SJ Biocenter Events--Incubator for Biotech and Tech Companies
• UCSC Extension--for courses in the biosciences and beyond

Business Links

• Healthcare Businesswomans Association --Fantastic events and networking
• Professional Businesswomen of California
• Biotech Entrepreneur to Entrepreneur
• UCSF Center for Gender Equity

Other Links

• Commune une Francais --Online info for women interested in moving to France
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Committee on Women in Science and Engineering
• American Association of University Women (AAUW)
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
• The Role Model Project for Girls
• The Role Model Project: Professional Women's Careers

Reading List

• Career Opportunities in Biotechnology and Drug Development by AWIS Supporter Toby Freedman
• Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing it, Peggy Klaus
• Women Don’t Ask, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
• Mothers on the Fast Track, Mary Ann Mason (Graduate Dean of UC Berkeley)
• Success Strategies for Women in Science: a Portable Mentor, Peggy Pritchard, Editor
• Overcoming the Superwoman Syndrome. Linda Ellis Eastman, Editor
• My Answer is No…if That’s OK with You: How Women Can Say No and (Still) Feel Good About It. Nanette Gartrell
• The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships, Harriet Lerner
• People Styles at Work: Making Bad Relationships Good and Good Relationships Better, Robert and Dorothy Bolton
  For Academia:
• At the Bench and At the Helm, Kathy Barker, CSHLP
• Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, HHMI, www.hhmi.org/ labmanagement
• Lab Dynamics: Management Skills for Scientists, Carl and Suzanne Cohen, CSHLP
• Managing Scientists, Alice Sapienza
• Finding Your North, Frederick Moore and Michael Penn (for graduate and medical students)
  Books about industry:
• Science Lessons, Gordon Binder, Former CEO of Amgen
• Put Your Science to Work, Peter Fiske
• Career Opportunities in Clinical Drug Research, Rebecca Anderson