The Activist's Guide to the Internet
Useful Links for Conducting Women's Research on the Internet
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Women's NGO's:
American Association of University Women: http://www.aauw.org/home.html
BizWomen: http://www.bizwomen.com
Boston Women's Web: http://www.bostonwomen.com
Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse: http://www.nysernet.org/bcic
California Women's Agenda; bringing the United Nations Platform for Action to the California grassroots: http://www.win-cawa.org
Catalyst: http://www.catalystwomen.org
Celebration of Women Writers: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/mmbt/women/writers.html
Equal Rights Advocate: http://www.equalrights.org
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), with an excellent report on the representation of women in the Media: http://www.fair.org
Feminist Majority: sign up for free email legislative alerts: http://www.feminist.org
Forum for African Educationalists: http://www.fawe.org
Girls on Film: www.girlsonfilm.com/film/navigation
Global Survival Network: www.globalsurvival.net
Go Girl Magazine: www.gogirl.com
GURL: www.gurl.com
Health Girl: www.nethealthgirl.com.au
Her Online: www.her-online.com
HerSPHERE: www.members.aol.com/AfriWomen/HerSPHERE
Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org
Just Sports for Women: www.justforwomen.com/contests.html
League of Women Voters: http://www.lwv.org; or find links to State and Local LWV websites: http://www.lwv.org/lwvwebs.html
Ms. Foundation: A national, multi-issue, public women's fund funds and assists women's self-help organizing efforts, and pursues changes in public consciousness, law, philanthropy and social policy. http://www.ms.foundation.org
National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL): http://www.naral.org
National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO): www.nabco.org
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: www.missingkids.org
National Council for Research on Women (NCRW): www.ncrw.org
National Organization of Women (NOW) has excellent and free email legislative alerts: http://ww.now.org
National Women's Business Council's Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE): http://www.fwe.org
NWPC (National Women's Political Caucus): http://www.nwpc.org. The site for California: http://www.nwpcca.org. For the NWPC Alameda North Chapter: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Atrium/7015/>
New Moon Publishing: http://www.newmoon.org
Online Birth Center: www.efn.org/~diz/birth/birthindex.html
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: www.oecd.org/dac
Planned Parenthood: http://www.plannedparenthood.org
Role Model Project for Girls: www.womenswork.org/girls/index.html
SBA's Online Women's Business Center: www.onlinewbc.org
SEAC National Office (Women's Health: Tampons as a Public Health Hazard): http://www.seac.org
Sexual Assault Information Page: www.cs.utk.edu/~bartley/sainfopage.html
Sojourner, The Women's Forum: www.tiac.net/users/sojourn
Teen Voices Online: www.teenvoices.com
University of Texas at Dallas, School of Social Sciences: www.utdallas.edu/dept/socsci
Vital Voices: Women in Democracy Movement: www.vitalvoices.org/index_eng.html
Voices of Women: www.voiceofwomen.com
Wellesley Centers for Women: www.wellesley.edu
Women in American History: women.eb.com/
Women and Computer Science: http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/Gender/gender.html
Women in International Security: www.puaf.umd.edu/WIIS
Women in Technology International (WITI): www.witi.com
Women's Connection Online: www.womenconnect.com
Women's Health Interactive: www.womens-health.com
Women's Research and Education Institute: www.wrei.org
Women's Wire: www.women.com/guide
WWWomen: www.wwwomen.com
Womensnet @IGC: www.igc.org/igc/womensnet
Work at Home Moms (WAHM): www.wahm.com
WOWFactor: www.wowfactor.com
War Widows, a website where widows of all armed conflicts can share their stories: http://www.warwidows.org/intro.html.
Women of Color Resource Center: www.coloredgirls.org
Women's Caucus for Gender Justice: http://www.iccwomen.org
Women's Studies Database: http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/
The Urban Institute, Washington, DC: http://www.urban.org
Government Resources:
California Commission on the Status of Women: contains links to other COSW's and women's organizations. http://www.statusofwomen.ca.gov/staff.html
California Department of Health Services Directory: http://www.dhs.cahwnet.gov/home/orgindex/index.htm
California State Legislature Online, for tracking bills: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov
CIA's Handbook of International Economic Statistics: http://www.cia.gov/cia/di/products/hies/index.html
Eurostat provides statistical and demographic information for countries in the European Union: http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/serven/home.htm
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD):http://www.oecd.org/statlist.htm
President's Interagency Council on Women: http://secretary.state.gov/www/picw/index.html
San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women: http://www.ci.sf.ca.us
U.C. Berkeley's California statewide database: http://www.igs.berkeley.edu:8880/library/gallery.html
U.S. Census Bureau: statistics. http://www.census.gov
U.S. Congress, for tracking legislation: http://www.congress.gov; and a list of email addresses for Congress members:http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/legislative/email.html
U.S. Department of Labor, for research on women in the workforce. http://www.dol.gov; or try The Women's Bureau (an agency of the Department of Labor): http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/; see also the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency of the Department of Labor: http://www.bls.gov/
U.S. Secretary of Human Health and Services Data Council coordinates data collection and analysis activities of the Department through an integrated health data collection strategy, coordination of data standards, and information dissemination and privacy policy activities. http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/datacncl/index.htm
White House Resources for Women and Families: www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/Women/OWIO/gresources.html
Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor: Www.dol.gov/dol/wb/
Universities with Women's Studies Programs and Centers:
Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy: http://tap.epn.org/cwppp/
Institute for Women's Policy Research: www.iwpr.org
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA): http://www.idea.int/
Kennedy School of Government: www.ksg.harvard.edu
Radcliffe Public Policy Institute: www.radcliffe.edu/pubpol/index.html
South Asian Women's NETwork (SAWNET): www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/index.html
SUNY at Stony Brook, Women's Studies: www.sunysb.edu/wns/
Women in Computer Science: http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/Gender/gender.html
International:
Statistics Sweden: http://www.scb.se
Swedish equality site:http://www.jamstalldhet.nu
United Nations homepage: http://www.un.org
United Nations Report on the Fourth Conference on Women in Beijing: http://www.undp/fwcw/dawl.htm
United Nations 1995 Beijing Conference on Women: the resulting Platform for Action: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/
UN Commission on the Status of Women: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/
International Beijing Plans of Action and strategies: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/followup/national/natplans.htm
UN Division for the Advancement of Women:http://www.un.org/womenwatch/followup/national/natplans.htm
Women 2000: Beijing Plus 5 Conference, the followup conference to the 1995 Conference: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/
U.S. Response and Followup Report to the 1995 Beijing Conference: http://secretary.state.gov/www/picw/beijing/questionnaire.html
UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees): http://www.unhcr.ch
USIA's International Women's Bulletin Board:http://www.usia.gov/topical/global/women/woman.htm
US Women Connect: http://www.uswc.org
Women'Action for New Directions (WAND):http://www.wand.org
Women's Studies Online:
Academic research in women's studies, feminist theory: http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links.html
Women's Studies Resources, maintained by the University of Iowa. Annotated resources in: Activism, Art, Communication and Media, Development (WID), Feminist Theory, French Feminists, History, Literature, Music, Sports, General or mixed resources. http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/
Women's Studies in the World - Links to Women's Studies in the world, as seen from Europe. http://women-www.uia.ac.be/women/worldsites.html
Women's Studies Periodicals. Maintained by the Women's Studies Department at Northern Arizona University. A comprehensive listing of the 100s journals, both online and otherwise, where much of the women's studies research takes place. http://www.nau.edu/~wst/access/periodichome.html
Women's History Organizations: http://foyt.iupui.edu/whistory/organizations.html
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
Search Engines, Think Tanks and Fundraising Links:
The Ada Project: Internet Resources for Women in Computer
Sciences: http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/tap/tap.html
Center for the American Woman and Politics: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/
Center for Women Policy Studies, Washington, DC: http://www.centerwomenpolicy.org
Center for Women's Global Leadership: http://cwgl.rutgers.edu
Civil Rights Monitor: http://www.civilrights.org/lcef
Electrapages: A comprehensive search engine of 9,000 women's organizations in the U.S.: http://www.electrapages.com
Email addresses of U.S. women's organizations by region: gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:70/00/women/directory/wmn.orgs
Foundation Center Online: invaluable tool for online grant research:: http://www.foundationonline.org
Public Policy Institute of California: http://wwwppic .org
Search engine for Women's Orgs on the Web.
Wellesley Centers for Research: http://www.wcwonline.org/wrn/
Women's Century Fund: http://www.wcwonline.org/wrn/
Women's Web: Women's Issues in the News: http://sfgate.com/examiner/womensweb.html
Women's Voices Radio:http://www.womensradio.com
Women's Net: http://www.igc.org/igc/wn/hg/index.html
Women's Internet resources, search: http://metalab.unc.edu/cheryb/women/wresources.html
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