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4000 Years of Women in Science - http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/ Women's contributions to science, from antiquity to the nineteenth century.

About.Com: Women in Astronomy - http://womenshistory.about.com/od/scienceastronomy/index.htm About.Com's guide to women astronomers.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Astronomy - http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/astrono.html Short biographies of various women in astronomy.

Engines of our Ingenuity: Women in Astronomy - http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi407.htm A radio show episode about German women astronomers in the 17th century.

Five Remarkable Women at the Crossroads of Astronomy - http://departments.weber.edu/physics/carroll/FiveWomen/ Information on Caroline Herschel, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Vera Rubin.

History of Women in Astronomy - http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/history.html The text and images from a slide set on women astronomers available from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Includes capsule biographies of women from Carolyn Herschel to Sidney Wolff.

International Women's Air & Space Museum, Inc. - http://www.iwasm.org/ A museum dedicated to the contributions women have made in the air and space sciences.

Kid's Cosmos - http://www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/women-astro.html Bibliographies of women in astronomy.

Women Astronomers - http://www.womanastronomer.com/ Biographies of Janet Mattei, Maria Mitchell, and Doritt Hoffleit, with and interview with Janet Mattei.

Women in Astronomy, 1880-1920 - http://www.carleton.edu/departments/PHAS/Astro/pages/marga_michele/WomenAstronomers.html Biographical information of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and other Harvard women. Includes photographs and links.

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