International Contacts for Networking Women

It's often good, and very beneficial, to reach beyond your own region or nation and network internationally. Expanding your horizons opens up new opportunities, and, at the same time, reinforces the conviction that women everywhere share many of the same values and will help each other meet the challenges we all face.

• Annuaire au Feminin - Listing all the women's organizations in France, including Business and Professional Women's Groups, American Women's Clubs Abroad, and online magazines dealing with women. Now in the process of translating into English from French

• Business and Professional Women Club de Lausanne - Swiss Federation of Business & Professional Women, in French

• Canadian Women's Internet Association Home Page - Founded to give all women both a voice and a place of their own on the Internet.

• Caribe.com - Caribbean resource center, with information on 28 countries and more than 50 million people.

• Das Osterretchische Frauennetzwerk - The Austrian Women's Network

• FemiNet Asiainformation resource and database by Korea, Malaysia,Mongolia and China designed to improve the status of women through information technology by enhancing women's information skills and leadership; a database for material on Asian women and organizations which will form a connection for networking.

• The International Alliance - Serves worldwide as the umbrella organization that unites, supports and promotes professional and executive women and their networks in the business, not-for-profit and government sectors.

• Network of East-West Women - international communication and resource network supporting dialogue, informational exchange and activism among those concerned about women's swiftly changing situation in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

• Women-Connect-Asia - Announcements, articles, and business registration

• Rochdale Business and Professional Womens Club - British, to help women realize their full potential in the workplace and in public life

• Solid Africa - Supporting the women's struggle for economic independence as the most efficient way to gain in political and social influence.

• Status of Women Canada (SWC) provides research, facilitates communication and promotes women's equality issues.

• Swedish Women's Net - Business to Business

• Town Canada - The Online Women's Network

• UK Women in Business Network - Provide businesswomen in London and the UK with access to the Internet community, and acts as a showcase for UK companies, products and events that are of interest

• Women's EuroMAP - Reference site for Women's Studies in Europe

• Women's Institute of Management - Based in Malaysia, reaching out to the Asian region, promoting partnerships and skills training

• Women's International Net a magazine about women, by women, for women, all over the world.

• WomenZnet - Australian site, provides access to activists using computer networks for information sharing, broadcast and collaboration

• WyberNetz - European internet meeting point for women, with the aim of promoting women activity on the Web.