Comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. Users will find timely and historically relevant content on topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.
Provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. This database includes topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Anti-Violence/Anti-Bias Organizations and Resources
Adbusters: An organization that tries to combat oppressive forms of the media.
Battered Women's Support Services: An organization working to eliminate the abuse of women, providing education, advocacy and support services for battered women.
Hollaback: A project that aims to end street harassment by exposing it.
INCITE: Nation-wide network of radical feminists of color working to end violence against women, gender non-conforming, and trans people of color, and our communities.
Justice Now: An organization that works to stop violence against women, including state-sanctioned violence and incarceration, and promotes alternative responses to interpersonal violence outside of policing and prisons.
Survived and Punished: An organization that works to end the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence
The Representation Project: This project looks to film and media content in order to break down gender stereotypes.
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International and Transnational Organizations
Association for Women's Rights in Development: An organization committed to gender equality and a just and sustainable development process.
Center for Women's Global Leadership: Seeks to develop an understanding of the ways in which gender affects the exercise of power and the conduct of public policy.
Global Fund for Women: Makes grants to seed, support, and strengthen women’s rights groups outside the U.S.
Sisterhood Is Global Institute: An organization working to empower women in the global South to define and achieve their human rights.
Women's Environment and Development Organization: International advocacy network working for justice through the empowerment of women.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: Works to achieve world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice and an end to all forms of violence.
Professional Organizations
American Association of University Women: A national organization that promotes education and equity for all women and girls.
National Women's Political Caucus: The only multi-partisan national grassroots organization dedicated to increasing the number of pro-choice women in elected and appointed offices.
National Women's Studies Association: Supports and promotes feminist/womanist teaching, learning, research and professional and community service.
Queer & Trans Organizations
Sylvia Rivera Law Project: Works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence.
Transgender Law Center: Changes law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.