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Women's Career Resources

WomensJobList.com - Browse Newly Posted Jobs
WomensJobList is constantly updated and hosts thousands of jobs across all industries. While the site targets a niche group, all applicants are encouraged to utilize the service.

Women's Rights Links

Amnesty International

Andrea Dworkin Online Library
Include: Nonfiction ; Fiction ; Speeches ; Essays and Articles ; Interviews ; Nicole Brown Simpson ; The Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance.

Attending to Early Modern Women
"This gateway provides links to World Wide Web resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period ca. 1500 to ca. 1800 but also includes some medieval and nineteenth-century resources...Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text resources, images, and sound recordings."
Arts and Humanities Team, University of Maryland Libraries

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

CDC - Division of Reproduction Health
Reproductive Health Information Source

  • 1999 Assisted Reproductive Technology Success Rates - (dead link) (December 2001)

Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (English, Spanish or French)
"Priority Issues" include: Human Rights ; World Laws ; Abortion ; Contraception ; Adolescents ; FC/FGM.

Cornell University Library - Rare & Manuscript Collections

  • From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?
    "In celebration of the New York State College of Human Ecology's Centennial, this exhibition will emphasize how home economics at Cornell University, served as a critical bridge from domesticity in the 19th century to modernity in the 20th century and will attempt to answer the question: What was home economics?"

Cornell University Library - Windows on the Past
"...is a grouping of selected historical materials which have been digitally scanned and are available for on-line browsing and searching."
Sections include: Historic Monographs Collection ; Historic Math Book Collection ; New York State Historical Literature ; International Women's Periodicals [restricted to Cornell University community] ; Ezra Cornell Papers ; Witchcraft Collection ; NEH Agriculture Collection ; Other Digital Collections.

The Emancipation of Women: 1740-1920 [United Kingdom]
"Biographies of 50 women who played a prominent part in the struggle for equality. The website also contains a database of written primary sources produced by, or about, these women and a collection of visual images that reflect the different views on the emancipation of women. The website also includes sections on Women in the 19th Century, Pressure Groups, Strategy & Tactics and Parliamentary Reform Acts."
From The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia, British History 1700-1920

Emory Women Writers Resources
"...is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. The Project is a pedagogical tool, designed to offer graduate and undergraduate students in various disciplines the opportunity to edit their own texts."
Prof. Sheila Cavanagh, Director

Fact Sheet on Dating Violence - (dead link)
Youth Violence and Suicide Prevention Team, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - Working Papers - (dead link)

  • Does Science Discriminate against Women? Evidence from Academia, 1973-97 - (dead link) (February 2001)
    By Donna K. Ginther
  • Gender Differences in Salary and Promotion for Faculty in the Humanities, 1977-95 - (dead link) (April 2001)
    By Donna K. Ginther and Kathy J. Hayes
    Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - Working Papers

FemBio - Notable Women International (English or German)
"Luise F. Pusch's Biographical Database contains information on more than 30,000 notable women worldwide. 600 of them are searchable online under "First Name," "Last Name," "Date of Birth," "Birthplace," "Date of Death," "Place of Death," "Nationality", "Profession" and fifteen more biographically relevant attributes like "was only child," "wrote autobiography," "loved a woman," "emigrated", etc.
The unique strength of this database is the information obtainable by connecting several attributes, for example, "Which singers / journalists born in Paris in the 1890's never married / wrote an autobiography / died in the 1940s?"
By Luise F. Push

Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Information Pack - (dead link)
Amnesty International

Feminist Collections
A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
Selected articles available online

Foreign Affairs
Published by the Council on Foreign Relations

El GÈnero en Historia - (dead link)
"This virtual volume serves as the initial stage of a needed text on gender history in Spanish, for a Latin
American audience. It presents an overview of the development of gender approaches over the last quarter century; describes and defines the analytical tools available to write history from a gender prespective;
provides researchers, teachers and students with a rich corpus of reading material; and introduces recent teaching and rapidly growing research on the field in Chile." [Description by Pablo Whipple Mor·n]
Electronic book by Anne Perotin-Dumon, Institute of History, Catholic University, Santiago, Chile, 2000

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around The World
"Dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches made by influential contemporary women."
Maintained by Liz Linton & Tom Solomon

Gormglaith (etext)
By Heidi Wyss.
"76,000 words of radical feminist separatist literature set in a scientifically plausible future. Free to read online."

A History of International Women's Day (etext)
By Joyce Stevens, Published in 1985 with updates for the cyber edition.

Human Rights Watch

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - (dead link) (1499) (etext)
"...is one of the most puzzling, enigmatic and fascinating books ever conceived. Since its publication (1499), it has surprised its readers with its vast knowledge of architecture and landscape and garden design, but also engineering, painting and sculpture...The book is also a political manifesto defending the right of women to express their own sexuality and the superiority of Eros, beauty and knowledge over aggression and war."
"The editing of the electronic book is based on research published in Liane Lefaivreís Leon Battista Albertiís Hypnerotomachia Poliphili published by The MIT Press and coincides with its release."

I To Eye: Portraits of Female Empowerment in Bangladesh
By Fariba Alam
"Mainstream media images of women in Bangladesh generally fall into two categories: the oppressed and the starving. The photographs in this online exhibition challenge these stereotypes by documenting the lives of active, independent, economically self-sufficient Bangladeshi women."
From Asia Source

INCORE - Occasional Papers - (dead link)

  • "Peacekeepers? Peacemakers? Women in Northern Ireland 1969-1995" - (dead link)
    A Professorial Lecture Given at the University of Ulster on 25th October 1995
    By Valerie Morgan

Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin

Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)

Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS)

  • HIV/AIDS
    • Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rights (English or Spanish)
      "Recognising that gender is a key factor in understanding and tackling the causes and the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, IPS undertook a multi-media programme on these themes from June 2001 - December 2002...Find a full archive of stories, radio news briefs, publications, links and training materials."
    • Shaan online
      "IPS e-zine on Gender and Human Rights"
      Re: HIV/AIDS
    • Training Manual for the Media: Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rights (2003)
      "The manual has three modules: A Gender Analysis Framework for the Media; Gender and HIV/AIDS - The Missing Story; and Improved Knowledge and Skills. Hands on exercises and examples from the media offer a practical feel to the content of the modules."

(Inter)disciplining Chinese Women:
An Introduction to the English Language Literature on Women's Studies in China
By Patricia Arend, Ph.D. student, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University, 2000.
From Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies

International Federation for Research in Women's History

International Monetary Fund - Working Papers

International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) - (dead link)
"...IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and countries in post-socialist transition."

  • Publications - (dead link)

Internet Women's History Sourcebook
"In addition to direct links to documents, links are made to a number of other web resources...Link to a secondary article, review or discussion on a given topic...Link to one of the megasites which track web resources...Link to a website focused on a specific issue.. These are not links to every site on a given topic, but to sites of serious educational value."
By Paul Halsall

[Iraq] Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
"The Education for Peace in Iraq Center promotes freedom, security, and genuine democracy for the people of Iraq."

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture

Marriage, Women, and the Law, 1815-1914
Studies in Scarlet
"This unique digital collection is the result of a coordinated, transnational project, 'Studies in Scarlet,' sponsored by the Research Libraries Group (RLG). With a focus on family law and domestic relations in the 19th century, the collection provides scholars throughout the world with electronic access to materials supporting research on a broad range of topics, including marriage, divorce, adultery, miscegenation, polygamy, and birth control. The content of the collection, gleaned from case reports, statutes, novels, newspapers, diaries, and letters, is designed to support scholarship in disciplines including law, history, sociology, political science, women's studies, and criminology."
- RLG Digital Collections Project

Microcredit Summit Campaign
"Working to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005."

Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)

National Academy Press (free online versions)

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (NCPTP)

  • Emerging Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy - (dead link) (May 30, 2001)
    This report "reviews research on a wide range of programs, including curriculum-based sexuality and abstinence education for teens and pre-teens, sex education for parents, contraceptive and family planning clinics and programs, early childhood programs, youth development and service learning programs, and community-based, multiple-component initiatives."
    Report by Douglas Kirby, Ph.D.

National Coalition for Girls and Women in Education

National Public Radio (NPR) - The Conversation

  • Women in Combat (April 3, 2003) [audio or text]
    "In the Iraq war there are more U.S. women in the armed forces, in more jobs, than in any previous conflict."
    Guests: Judith Hicks Stiehm and Elaine Donnelly

National Science Federation

National Women's Studies Association (NWSA)

  • Defining Women's Studies: A Statement of the National Women's Studies Association Task Force on Faculty Roles and Rewards - (dead link) [.pdf]

The Nobel Peace Prize - (dead link)

NOVA Online

  • Dying to be Thin
     "...the companion Web site to 'Dying to be Thin,' scheduled for broadcast on December 12, 2000. The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia." You can watch the entire program online.

Population Research Institute Working Papers

Provincial Museum of Alberta

  • The Poster War Virtual Exhibit
    "The Poster War exhibit contains forty-six posters selected from the collection of the late Theodore Elizabeth Wright Macgillivray. These posters represent some of the work of Allied poster artists and the best work of their Canadian counterparts during the First World War...Particularly noteworthy is the evolution in the portrayal of women in the sections of the exhibit." [emphasis added]
    By Maurice F.V. Doll

Roe v. Wade in a Nutshell - An Edited Text
"Six Justices wrote opinions for Roe v. Wade. Altogether they verge on eighty pages in length. Here are the six opinions edited for brevity..."
From the Abortion Law page.
See also Academic Info: Women & the Law

Russell Sage Foundation Working Papers

  • "Gender Differences in Pay" [.pdf] - (dead link) By Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn

Statistics Canada

  • How Healthy are Canadians? - (dead link)
    "This special issue of Health Reports, the second in an annual series examining the factors that affect our health and well-being, looks into the differences in health between men and women."

Status of Women Canada

  • "Women's Economic Independence and Security: A Federal/Provincial/Territorial Strategic Framework" - (dead link) (March 2001) [.pdf]

TIMEasia.com: Child Slavery
"As the gap between rich and poor grows wider, destitute Asians are increasing selling their most valuable property: their children."
Sections include: Anatomy of a Deal ; Cover Story ; Camel Jockeys ; Fisher Boys ; Domestics ; Conscripts ; Related Links

Toolkit To End Violence Against Women
"To provide concrete guidance to communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end violence against women, the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women developed the Toolkit To End Violence Against Women. The recommendations contained in the Toolkit were reviewed by numerous experts in the fields of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking ... Each Toolkit chapter focuses on a particular audience or environment and includes recommendations for strengthening prevention efforts and improving services and advocacy for victims."

UNAIDS - World AIDS Day 2002
Live and Let Live

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

UN Division for the Advancement of Women

United Nations Human Rights

United Nations Statistical Division

U.S. Census Bureau

  • Population and Household Economic Topics
    • Fertility of American Women (October 2001)
      "Data on fertility of American women for the noninstitutionalized population..."
    • Women in the United States: March 2000 (PPL-121)
       "These tables present data on the demographic, social, and economic characteristics of women in the United States from the March 2000 supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS). Topics covered include geographic distribution, age and sex distribution, family type and family size, educational attainment, labor force participation and unemployment, occupational characteristics, family income, and poverty status."

U.S. Department of Defense - (dead link)

  • Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence - (dead link)
    • 2001 Report - (dead link) [.pdf]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
    • Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2000 - (dead link) [.pdf] (August 2001)
    • Highlights of Women's Earnings in 1999 - (dead link) [.pdf]
  • Women's Bureau
    • "Earning Differences Between Women and Men" - (dead link) (April 2001)

University of Virginia Art Museum

University of Virginia Library - Chinese Text Initiative

  • Lienu zhuan ; Lieh Nu Chuan
    [Traditions Of Exemplary Women]
    "Compiled toward the end of the Former Han dynasty (202 B.C.- A.D. 9), Liu Xiang's (79-8 B.C.) Lienu zhuan [Traditions of Exemplary Women, hereafter abbreviated as LNZ] is the earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely devoted to the moral education of women."
    Introduction by Anne Kinney, Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Virginia

Varo Registry of Women Artists
"...is an electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international women artists. The Varo Registry is designed to provide all women artists an opportunity to become part of today's electronic community."
Named in memory of Remedios Varo (1908-1963)

Victorian Women Writers Project
"The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them."
Perry Willett, General Editor, Indiana University

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
By Mary Wollstonecraft. 1792.
Online edition by Bartleby.com
"Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Women was the first great feminist treatise."

Violence Policy Center
"Research, Analysis, and Advocacy for Effective Gun Policy"

Virtual Museum of Canada

  • Perspectives: Women Artists in North America
    "...celebrates the important contributions of women in the arts from Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America. The Web exhibit features historical, modern, and contemporary art."

Wellesley College - Wellesley Centers for Women

  • Research & Action Report - (dead link)
    "...published twice a year, is a window on the exciting range of activities and initiatives carried out at the Centers. The Report typically features news about the Centers, interviews with researchers, commentary on recent events or social trends affecting women and girls, announcements of new publications and much more."

Women and Decadence : A Critique of Feminist Ideology - (dead link)
Awarded a First in the Degree of Master of Arts from N.U.I. [National University of Ireland] Maynooth, July, 1995.
By John Flynn

Women in Physics, 2000
"Data on the current and historic trends in the representation of women in physics, including comparative data on women in related fields."
Report from the American Institute of Physics

Women Who Censor - (dead link) "Pornography is controversial because sex is controversial. And women, despite the utopian idea of universal sisterhood, have never been united on these issues.
Index on Censorship untangles the disagreements and cultural differences over sex and violence, the right to abortion, wearing the veil, and confronts the women who believe in censorship as a means of protecting themselves, their daughters and their culture."
Cover story: Index on Censorship, Issue 2, 2000

WomenWatch
 "The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women."

Women's Human Rights Resources
 "Click on the links on the right to locate diverse, quality information on women's international human rights law. Each subject is divided into: Articles: annotated bibliographic references to scholarly articles with links to full text where available...Documents: annotated references to conventions and UN Reports, NGO reports, case law and legislation with links to full text where available...Links to other websites with annotations."
Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto

Working Papers on the Web - (dead link)
"...to produce a high quality, cutting edge series of collections of essays on particular themes which reflect the research strengths of the staff and postgraduates in English Studies at Sheffield Hallam University."

World Bank GenderNet
"This site describes how the Bank seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development."

  • Gender and the Digital Divide Seminar
    "The series looks at the impact that information and communication technologies (ICT) are having on gender relations and innovative ways that ICTs are being used to overcome gender inequalities and bridge the digital divide."


Online Journals & Magazines
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

Feminism & Nonviolence Studies Journal

Feminist Studies in Aotearoa Electronic Journal - (dead link) A listing of recent issues can be found a little way down the page

Feminista!
The Online Journal of Feminist Construction

First Monday
Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet

  • Globalization of Prurience: The Internet and the degradation of Women and Children - (dead link) (January 2004)
    By Indhu Rajagopal with Nis Bojin
  • Internet in the Lives of Turkish Women - (dead link) (March 2002)
    By Ayisigi B. Sevdik and Varol Akman

The Gazette - (dead link)
The newsletter of the APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP)

gender forum
An Internet Platform for Gender and Women's Studies
"...is a new electronic journal dedicated to the discussion of women's and gender studies. It developed out of gender Inn, a database for gender and women's studies launched by the English Department of Cologne University (Germany) in 1987. Since then, annotated bibliographic records of feminist theory, gender studies, feminist literary criticism and feminist literature from other fields such as education, sociology, history, and psychology have been provided via a feminist search index."

Genders Online Journal
Presenting Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories

INTERSECTIONS
Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context
"...is a refereed electronic journal conceived as an interactive forum for new research and teaching in the area of Gender Studies in the Asian region. It stems from Murdoch University's School of Asian Studies..."

Jenda - (dead link)
Journal of Culture and African Women Studies
"...an ejournal devoted to the promotion of research and scholarship of importance to the global African community and friends of Africa."

Journal of South Asia Women Studies - (dead link)

Ling Lung Women's Magazine
Published in Shanghai, China, 1931-1937
"...published in the 1930s in Shanghai, China at a time when womenís role in society, at least in that sophisticated and foreign-influenced metropolis, was in rapid transition...They were hungry for gossip about the glamorous movie stars they saw in the cinema, and eager for advice about social situations which their mothers could not have dreamt of...Ling Lung, a pocket-sized, slender, and inexpensive weekly, boldly ventured to meet these new needs by encouraging women to advance toward the good life through socially high-minded entertainment."
Digitization project of the East Asian Library, Columbia University

National Now Times

Scholar & Feminist Online
A webjournal published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

thirdspace
"We aim to produce a top-quality, refereed journal that demonstrates the broad range of applications for feminist theory and methodology, as well as gives emerging feminist scholars a venue for their work. Besides articles, the journal will contain essays, editorials, book reviews, and new books in print."

Wellesley College - Wellesley Centers for Women

  • Research & Action Report - (dead link)
    "...published twice a year, is a window on the exciting range of activities and initiatives carried out at the Centers. The Report typically features news about the Centers, interviews with researchers, commentary on recent events or social trends affecting women and girls, announcements of new publications and much more."

Women's Health in Primary Care - (dead link)
"...is a monthly magazine for physicians and other health professionals. It provides these clinicians with information on the wide spectrum of disorders affecting women."
Full-text available two months after publication

Womanist Theory and Research
A Journal of Womanist and Feminist-of-Color Scholarship and Art

Women & Politics - (dead link)
A Quarterly Journal of Research and Policy Studies

Women in Judaism - A Multidisciplinary Journal


Bibliographies
Africabib.org
"The site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database) and African Women's literature (African Women's Database). You will also find a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-1999: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography)."
Created and are maintained by Davis Bullwinkle, Director of the IEA Research Library

gender Inn
Women's and Gender Studies Database
"gender Inn is a searchable database providing access to over 5000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature."
Also available in German (Universit‰t zu Kˆln Englisches Seminar)

Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)

Noema: The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy
"This bibliography is a project in collaborative scholarship with a database now containing over 16,000 records representing the work of over 5,000 women."
"Final edition of this site 8 June, 1998."

Preliminary Bibliography: Crimes of Honour - (dead link)
"This bibliography has been prepared under the auspices of the Project on Strategies of Response to Crimes of 'Honour' a joint project between CIMEL (Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law - (dead link)) and INTERIGHTS (International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights). It includes annotations of published material from books and journals followed by case summaries."

Viva - (dead link)
A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
International Institute of Social History - Women's History

 

Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies

Women Immigrants 1945 To The Present: A Bibliography
"This bibliography is an effort to collect the current international literature on women immigrants. It is a supplement and update of the publication, Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Bibliography that is available from Greenwood Press."
Compiled by Eleanore O. Hofstetter

Women in Chinese History
Bibliography.
By Marilyn Shea, Dept. of Psychology, University of Maine

The Women's Library

  • Suffrage Banners Collection
    "The Library houses an important collection of early twentieth century suffrage banners many designed and created by the artist based suffrage organisations the Artist's Suffrage League and the Suffrage Atelier."
    The collection is accessible via the vads [Visual Arts Data Service] online Image Collection.


Academic Discussion Lists
chora-l
...international Listserv for emerging feminist scholars."

French-Feminism
"FRENCH-FEMINISM is an electronic forum for discussion and experimentation rooted in the works of writers who, taken as a loosely-cohering group, constitute French feminist thought. FRENCH-FEMINISM is an open list - all interested parties are invited and encouraged to participate."

H-Frauen-L Discussion Network
"...The purpose of this list is to enhance communications on teaching and scholarship about women and gender in Early Modern Europe."

H-Gender-MidEast
"This discussion network seeks to establish an active dialogue on issues of gender in the Arabic speaking Middle East, Turkey, the Caucuses, Central Asia, Western Asia, the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa."

H-Women Discussion Network
"H-Women is free and open to everyone with a mature and abiding interest in the history of women, especially scholars, teachers and librarians."
Includes: Discussion Logs ; Scholars' Directory ; Announcements ; Syllabi & Dissertations ; Bibliographies ; Internet Links.