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Feminist Studies Collections

Internet Resources: Women & Work

General

United States

• Women's Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Labor
• National Council for Research on Women for information on changes to government sites including the Women's Bureau. See also their Jobs and Economy section
• Harvard's Women Working, 1870-1930 - access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources
• Glass Ceiling Commission
• Work & Family program of the National Partnership for Women & Families
• NOW and Economic Equity
• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Women Work: The National Network for Women's Employment
• Working Women (AFL-CIO)
• Workplace Links from feminist.com
• National Committee on Pay Equity
• 9to5, National Association for Working Women
  

International

See also Women of Color & Women Worldwide.

• International Labour Organization homepage, search for "women" to discover programmes and publications
• Women Watch: The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
• The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
• UNIFEM: United Nations Development Fund for Women, including link to site on Strengthening Women's Economic Capacity
• Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
• Equality Authority, an Irish independent statutory body set up to end employment discrimination
• Women's Media.com: the site for working women
• Rural Womyn Zone
• Women and the Economy (UNPAC, Manitoba)
• Women Workers from Human Rights Watch
• Women Working Worldwide (UK)

Databases

• Contemporary Women's Issues (1992+) fulltext database available to the Stanford community via the Web
• GenderWatch available to the Stanford community via the Web
• Women's Studies International (1972+) - part of BiblioLine available to the Stanford community via the Web.
• Women's Studies on Disc SUNet ID required.
• Women, Work and Gender from Washington State University Libraries

Women in Business

• Women in Business site from WWWomen
• National Association for Female Executives.
• Workplace Links and Women-Owned Businesses from Feminist.com
• Women's Business/Work Web Sites (J. Korenman, UMBC)

Specific Occupations

• H-Women, an electronic discussion list for those who study women's history
• International Archive of Women in Architecture
• International Society of Women Airline Pilots
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• The Ninety-Nines: International Organization of Women Pilots
• Prostitutes Education Network
• Sisters in Crime, women mystery writers
• Women and Business links from the Women's Studies Section of ACRL
• Women Composers

Job/Career Opportunities

• WMST-L, the Women's Studies discussion list moderated by Joan Korenman frequently lists positions available in women's studies and related fields.
• inforM Women's Studies: Employment (University of Maryland) information on jobs, plus grant information
• Feminist Career Center from Feminist Majority.

Sexual Harassment

• Sexual Harassment: What Every Working Woman Needs to Know from 9to5, National Association of Working Women.
• Sexual Harassment Internet Resources and Sexual Harassment Hotline Resource List with links to other resources from Feminist Majority.
• Information about Sexual Harassment from Nancy Wyatt (Penn State University)
• Sexual-Harassment-Info.org

Last modified: July 19, 2006