The Kovalesvkaia Fund is a small foundation which aims to encourage women in science and technology in developing countries through appropriate forms of support. It hopes to increase the contact and cooperation between women in science in different countries, and also stimulate the scholarly study of connections between the status of women and scientific-technological development.

The Fund is named after the Russian mathematician, sociologist and feminist Sofia V. Kovalevskaia (1850-1891), who once said:

...is it really possible not to stretch out one's hand, possible to refuse to help someone who is seeking knowledge and cannot help herself reach its source ? After all, on women's road, when a woman wants to take a path other than the trodden one leading to (traditional) marriage, so many difficulties pile up. I myself encountered many of these. Therefore consider it my duty to destroy whatever obstacles I can in the path of others.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Ann Hibner Koblitz Director, Kovalevskaia Fund 654717th Ave., N.E. Seattle WA 98115, U.