This page provides editorial commentary on a historical online resource hub. WIGSAT (Women Inspiring Girls in STEM, Advancement & Training) is an editorial directory and is not affiliated with, nor a successor to, the Gender Science and Technology Gateway, the historical organisation that operated gstgateway.wigsat.org, or any of the partner organisations referenced. References are for editorial historical purposes only.
Editorial commentary on a historical online resource that operated through the 2000s and early 2010s
Through the 2000s and early 2010s, an international resource hub operated at the subdomain gstgateway.wigsat.org under the heading "Gender, Science and Technology Gateway," commonly shortened to "GST Gateway." It served as a clearinghouse for academic literature, policy briefs, and training materials at the intersection of gender equity and scientific development, and was used by researchers, development practitioners, policy analysts and educators in many countries. The hub is no longer operating in its original form; its contents are preserved at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
The archived material is organised into five thematic areas, all of which can still be browsed through the Wayback Machine:
The Gateway sat alongside other coordinating mechanisms that shaped the gender-and-STEM policy field during the same period - the Gender Advisory Board's submissions to UNCSTD, the GASAT conference series, the OWSD fellowship and member network, and a number of national academies' working groups on women in research. It provided a relatively accessible reference layer for practitioners who needed source material quickly without going through the academic-journal access channels. The contemporary equivalents in 2026 are institutional sites such as the GenderInSITE knowledge portal, EIGE's resources collection, UNESCO's SAGA materials, and OECD's gender-in-STEM indicators.
The Gateway also indexed the Gender Equality in Knowledge Societies (GEKS) scorecard series produced in the early 2010s, which benchmarked countries on women's participation across knowledge-economy indicators. Editorial overviews of the GEKS framework and the country assessments are available on this site:
The present WIGSAT directory - Women Inspiring Girls in STEM, Advancement & Training - is an editorial directory of STEM programs, scholarships, camps and mentor networks for women and girls. It is a separate later use of the wigsat.org domain and has no organisational, legal, or operational continuity with the prior wigsat.org organisation (1998 to mid-2010s) or with the Gender Science and Technology Gateway. The historical hub is referenced on this page only for the limited purpose of editorial commentary. Browse the current programs directory →