Women's Issues
Recent Additions to This Section
(This section features sites added to the page in the last few weeks.
Each link is cross-referenced on the page in its proper category.) Soroptimist International
of the Americas Soroptimist
International
Organized in 1921, this group has more than 100,000 members
in 119 countries around the world. It uses its official status with the United
Nations to advocate on behalf of women's issues.
Women's History Month
Gale Free Resources: Women's History Month
Includes biographies, a quiz, activities, a timeline, etc. Women's Rights: 1848 to the Present
This site contains "articles, speeches, biographies and links relating to women's rights." Includes information on the 1847 Seneca Falls, New York conference "that set the stage to gain women in the United States the right to vote," brief profiles of prominent activists (Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul), and information on Domestic Violence Awareness Month (observed every October). Infoplease.com: Women's History Month
From the Learning Network, features links to timelines, biographies, and more. WSSLinks
A collaborative project of the Women's Studies Section Collection Development Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries, is a resource that should be bookmarked by everyone interested in women's studies. Ancestry.com: Women's History Month
Features new, extensive databases on women and a Web page dedicated to women's history. The new databases include the Pennsylvania Women in the Revolutionary War, the Biographical Cyclopedia of U.S. Women, Women of the Century, and American WWI Mother's Pilgrimage. The Web page dedicated to women's history features quotes from notable women, the entire presidential proclamation declaring March National Women's History Month, and links to articles and sites about women's history. Women in World History
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood," said Nobel-Prize winning scientist Marie Curie. Read about the lives of great women rulers, heroes and innovators from all over the world, with a special emphasis on those from the first millennium. Historia
"Women Scientists in History: Hypatia (AD 370-415) was an ancient Roman mathematician and astronomer who invented several scientific instruments. Read about other women throughout history who have made important contributions in the sciences, such as computer scientist Grace Hopper and astronaut Sally Ride. By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
These 38 pictures include individual portraits, photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, an anti-suffrage display, and cartoons. The images, which complement a collection of text documents, are both searchable and browsable. The International Women's Media Foundation
Conducts seminars and other projects. Motherhood, Social Service, and Political Reform: Political Culture and Imagery of American Woman Suffrage
Featured on the site of the National Museum of Women's History, proposed for Washington, DC. The exhibit examines the political imagery and artifacts of the suffrage movement. Visitors can also listen to a suffrage song. The sites described above are but some of the ever-growing number of primary resources for women's history available on the Internet. Women's Ordination
With an alternate title Presenting the Case for Ordaining Women in the Catholic Church, this site provides over one thousand articles collected by Catholic theologians, plus a summary of the two sides of the debate. Site is by a Roman Catholic, a former priest, who resigned his ministry over "a conflict of conscience."Browsable through the site map, and searchable. Portions are also available in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch, and Portuguese. A Celebration of Women Writers
This is the location to find links to free digitized editions of published works by women throughout history. Genres include novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Some of the historical works in this collection are The Work of the Afro-American Woman, a 1908 encomium by N.F. Mosell, Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction, by Hallie Q. Brown (1926), and several more biographies and autobiographies. Soroptimist International
of the Americas Soroptimist
International
Organized in 1921, this group has more than 100,000 members
in 119 countries around the world. It uses its official status with the United
Nations to advocate on behalf of women's issues. Hawaii Women's Heritage Project
The program has mounted several separate multimedia projects that other Women's Studies Programs might like to emulate with features on their local history and issues. "Women and Work in Hawai'i: Into the Marketplace" uses a laundry line throughout to symbolize the "fluid exchange of women's work between the home and the labor market." Other parts include a site about the hula and about Chinese women in Hawaii. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Presented by the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!) The famous sweatshop fire on March 25, 1911, killed 146 workers, primarily young immigrant women who jumped to their deaths in desperate attempts to get out of the burning building, while spectators helplessly watched in horror. The exhibit includes photographs, newspaper accounts, political cartoons decrying the conditions, and audio clips from oral histories with witnesses and survivors. Communications Rights in the Information Society (CRIS)
Covers race and gender issues in communications. Distinguished Women Past and Present
Bios, stories and more. Historical Figures Women in History U.S. Census: Women in the United States United Nations WomenWatch Seneca Falls Convention (Smithsonian) National Park Service: Places Where Women Made History Nellie Bly Study Guide Margaret Bourke-White: Women in History Scholastic Research Tools: Women's History Five College Archives Digital Access Project Women In World History Curriculum American Women's History: A Research Guide Internet Women's History Sourcebook NWHP: Women's History Month Women in Journalism Oral History Project About.com's Women in the Workplace: Communications Distinguishedwomen.com: Journalism and Broadcasting American Women's History: Journalism Newseum: National Geographic's Women Photographers
Women's Organizations National Organization of Women National Federation of Republican Women Journalism and Women Symposium National Foundation for Women Business Owners National Federation of Press Women International Women's Media Foundation Women's International Center BlogSisters
A Weblog on women's issues.
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