Women

Advancing Women in Leadership
An on-line professional, refereed journal for women in leadership. The journal publishes manuscripts that report, synthesize, review, or analyze scholarly inquiry that focuses on women's issues

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Association for Women in Computing

Association for Women in Mathematics

Association for Women in Science

American Medical Women's Association

ANTIGONE: AALS Section on Women in Legal Education

Beijing +5 Women 2000:
Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century
Special Session of the General Assembly, 5-9 June 2000

Best Online Resources for Women and Minorities in Science and Technology

Biographies of Women Mathematicians
"These pages are part of an on-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. There are biographical essays or comments on most of the women mathematicians and some photos."

Center for American Women and Politics
"A unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, CAWP is a leading authority in its field and a respected bridge between the academic and political worlds."

Center for Research on Women
For more than 20 years the Center for Research on Women has been in the forefront of research in which the central questions are shaped by the experiences and perspectives of women. An interdisciplinary community of scholars are engaged in research, programs and publications which examine the lives of women, men and children in a changing world.

Chronological Index of Women Mathematicians

Chronology of Women's History in Science

"In her clear, accessible argument about what has happened to women in academe, Martin never stoops to jargon herself. In fact, her devotion to plain speaking may at times remind the reader of George Bernard Shaw's devotion to simplified spelling. But in her 30 years as a college professor and philosopher of education, the author has achieved a clarity of vision that is well served by her unadorned prose."

Contributions of Women to Physics

Digital Women Business Community Online for Businesswomen
"Digital-Women was created for women in business, business women and all women around the globe looking for a place to gather resources, free business tips, free sales tips, free marketing tips, home business ideas, and a place to network with other business women and women owned businesses."

With its move from hierarchical to team-based structures and its dismantling of functional barriers, the organization of the future is touted as a radical departure from traditional models. The worker of the future, we are told, must be a collaborative team player, able to give and receive help, empower others, and operate in a world of interdependence. This new worker needs relational skills and emotional intelligence--the ability to work effectively with others and understand the emotional context in which work takes place. Paradoxically, the very skills that give organizations a competitive advantage may be precisely those that prevent individual employees--especially women--from advancing.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
This site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. Some were alive hundreds of years ago and some are living today.

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

Feminist bookstores, publishers, reviews, lists and electronic versions of women's studies books
This page maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian

Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
"Contains news of the latest print and audiovisual resources for research and teaching in women's studies"

Gifts of Speech
Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary, women from around the world.

International Federation of University Women ( IFUW )
The IFUW is "an international non-governmental organization (NGO) of over 180,000 women university graduates from sixty-nine national federations and associations throughout the world."

Internet Women's History Sourcebook

Magazines and Newsletters on the Web (Women Focused)
One of the best on the net. Very Extensive.

Michigan State University's Women & International Development Program (WID)
Michigan State University's Women & International Development Program (WID) promotes teaching, research, and action on international development and global transformation as they affect women and gender relations. While WID's primary focus is the Southern Hemisphere, the program recognizes that the "South" is a set of relationships rather than a place. Moreover, development and global change bring costs as well as benefits, which are often not shared equally by men and women of different nations, races, classes, and ethnicities.

National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women (NCCTRW)
"Focuses on curriculum change projects and activities. Provides information on helpful resources for faculty as well as organizational materials for project directors. Specializes in the scholarship on women and diversity. Is oriented toward faculty in both secondary and postsecondary education."

The National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by educating the public concerning their accomplishments.

National Organization for Women

National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals
"NOGLSTP is a national organization of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders employed or interested in scientific or high technology fields...and are an affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science."

National Women's Hall of Fame
"In 1969, a group of women and men of Seneca Falls created the National Women's Hall of Fame, believing that the contribution of American women deserved a permanent home in the small village where it all began. The Hall is home to exhibits, artifacts of historical interest, a research library and office."

National Women’s History Project
"The National Women’s History Project is a non–profit organization dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational material and programs."

National Women's Studies Association
NWSA supports and promotes feminist/womanist teaching, learning, research, and professional and community service at the pre-K through post-secondary levels and serves as a locus of information about the inter-disciplinary field of Women's Studies for those outside the profession. NWSA publishes a newsletter NWSAction, the quarterly NWSA Journal and other publications

The Pennsylvania Center for Women, Politics, and Public Policy
The Pennsylvania Center for Women, Politics, and Public Policy (PCWPPP) at Chatham University is a non-partisan center devoted to fostering women's public leadership through education, empowerment, and action.

Society of Women Engineers
The Society of Women Engineers' Mission is to stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expands the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrates the value of diversity.

Wikipedia's List of female Nobel laureates

Women and Politics Research Section
"The Women and Politics Research Section serves the profession by organizing traditional research panels and thematic roundtables at APSA's annual meeting, by publishing a newsletter, by representing section members' interests to the APSA, and by honoring distinguished scholarship with annual awards for the best paper and best dissertation. Over 500 faculty, graduate students, and other scholars are members of the section which is governed by officers and executive council."

Women and Public Policy Program - Harvard University
"The Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government was founded with the internal goal of incorporating an understanding of gender perspectives on public policy into the education of future and current leaders trained at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the external goal of contributing to the canon of scholarship on women and public policy."

Women - Annie Leibovitz
In her book, " Women," Annie Leibovitz portrays a cross-section of women in the U.S. and encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects. A selection of these photographs, which were taken especially for the book, can be seen on the web exclusively on The New York Times' site.

Women in Higher Education
A monthly publication source of news and views to provide an overview of issues affecting women on campus.

Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide
Film, cinema, movies, motion pictures -- covers a wide range of topics. Though "Women in Cinema" narrows the topic in one sense to a particular type of film, at the same time it broadens it to include many aspects of topics such as feminism, the women's movement, and women's issues.

Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

Women in Science and Engineering
The Iowa State University Library inaugurated its Archives of Women in Science and Engineering in April 1994. This new archive was born from the need to document the history of women in science and engineering -- their social history as well as the story of their scientific achievements.

Women Nobel Prize Laureates

Women of Color
Extensive list of links that focus on women of color in the United States and around the world

Women of Computing - Past and Present

Women's Resources

Women's Studies Database
The University of Maryland women's studies database, begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues.

Women's Studies Periodicals
"Housed at Northern Arizona University, This database provides a comprehensive listing of over 1000 periodicals either specifically dedicated to women's studies/feminist scholarship, or others which do more than occasional publication of feminist writing & scholarship. The site provides notations of full text providers, abstracting and contents services, and library holdings. Academic journals, political publications, newspapers, newsletters and 'zines are included."

Women's Studies Programs, Departments, & Research Centers Extensive
Maintained by Joan Korenman Director of the Center for Women and Information Technology and Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Links to more than 450 women's studies (including "gender studies") programs, departments, and research centers around the world that have web sites.

Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites Extensive
"Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites is a selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program."

Women Writers
Women Writers was created and is maintained by Mary Mark Ockerbloom of the Department of Computational Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Extensive