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About.Com: Women in Astronomy - About.Com's guide to women astronomers..

Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Astronomy - Short biographies of various women in astronomy..

Engines of our Ingenuity: Women in Astronomy - A radio show episode about German women astronomers in the 17th century..

Five Remarkable Women at the Crossroads of Astronomy - Information on Caroline Herschel, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Vera Rubin..

History of Women in Astronomy - 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. - A museum dedicated to the contributions women have made in the air and space sciences..

Kid's Cosmos - Bibliographies of women in astronomy..

U.S. Naval Observatory - Description of the contributions made by women to the United States Naval Observatory..

Women Astronomers - Biographies of Janet Mattei, Maria Mitchell, and Doritt Hoffleit, with and interview with Janet Mattei..

Women in Astronomy, 1880-1920 - Biographical information of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and other Harvard women. Includes photographs and links..

4000 Years of Women in Science - Women's contributions to science, from antiquity to the nineteenth century..

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