Lecture Panelists:
Mary McGann, Sr. VP, Sales of womenCONNECT.com
Marion Summerville, creative director for Quantum Research Corporation
Jay Gitomer, senior editor for US Internetworking
M. Jasmine Sante, an Internet consultant with the FAA
Moderator: MJ Bear, director of New Media at National Public Radio
Event Producer, NPC member Kathleen Hickey

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The Internet is often said be a reflection of its myriad respective publishers and users, and the image we currently see emerging from the Internet looking glass is increasingly that of women from around the world.

Various polls have recently reported that more than 45 percent of Netsurfers are now women, and various estimates project that women will account for over 50 percent of Net users by the end of 1999. Starting from what was almost an all-male club just a few years ago on the Internet, women-oriented online publications, and women-owned Netbusinesses, have skyrocketed. The National Press Club "Women and the Web" forum will examine the current business climate for women on the Web; look at the number of women-owned businesses online; review the available resources (news, information, and connections) for women online; will look at gender demographics on the Internet; and, perhaps most importantly, look at the types of community being formed by women online as the Internet-medium approaches the impending 21st century.

Sponsored by US Newswire; by the National Press Club Library; and the NPC High-Technology Committee -- T.K.Maloy, chairperson. Also: Business Week, AppNet, Westlake Solutions, Digital Nation, and The Internet Newsroom.