Feminist Internet Resources

Political Issues
Policy Issues
Research Issues
Internet Resource Links for women
Resources for African Americans
Resources for gays and lesbians
Women's health issues
International Issues
Feminist links
Women's History
Women in the Arts
Links to educational resources and other Women's studies programs
Women in the Workplace
Women in Science
Women's Journals and E-zines

Also See Women's Studies and Feminist Internet Links in the Fall 97 Issue of GW Feminist Review


Political Issues

  • 50+1 is a grass roots organization specialized in training women to seek public office. 
  • The League of Women Voters is a multi-issue organization whose mission is to encourage the informed and active participation of citizens in government and to influence public policy through education and advocacy. 
  • National Organization For Women (NOW),has its own webpage with lots of information about the organization, as well as other links. 

Policy Issues and Research on women's issues

Resource Links 

  • The Cybergrrl Webstation is an internet resource for women and girls. 
  • Feminist Activist Resources on the Net is a guide that connects Feminist Activists to indexes on particular topics of feminism 
  • First Pointers is a women's guide to the internet. This project encourages women to feel comfortable on the Net. This is a guide for women who aren't yet comfortable on the Internet. 
  • The University of Maryland Women's Studies Database has a wide variety of information and resources on all aspects of Women's Studies. It even has a keyword search. 
  • WomensNet is an organization that supports women's organizations worldwide by providing and adapting telecommunications technology to enhance their work. 
  • WOW: Women Online Worldwide is the online hot spot for women with chat, message boards, shopping, file libraries, and much more. 
  • The Virtual Sisterhood is dedicated to strengthening the impact of feminist organizing through electronic communications. The page can be viewed in several languages 

Links for African American Resources

Links for Gay and Lesbian Resources 

Women's health issues 

International Issues

  • Art for Humanity is a South African human rights arts project that includes the National “Women for Children” billboard campaign and the “Break the Silence HIV/AIDS Awareness Project”.
  • Women's Net has a homepage dedicated to the Beijing Women's Conference
  • Equality Now is an international human rights organization, dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women.
  • The FGM Research Homepage is a comprehensive site for any information you might need regarding FGM. 
  • The Global Fund for Women is an international organization which focuses on female human rights 
  • The Global Progressive Forum was launched in 2003 at an event co-organised by the Party of European Socialists, the Socialist Group in the European Parliament and Socialist International. It maintains a focus on Decent Work and on Women Globalization
  • International Women's Health Coalition 
  • The International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) is a network of feminist gender specialists who provide technical information on gender and trade issues to women's groups, NGOs, social movements, governments, and academic institutions. IGTN also acts as a political catalyst to enlarge the space for a critical feminist perspective and global action on gender, trade, and globalization issues. The IGTN is a Southern-led network that builds South/North cooperation with the aim of developing more just and democratic trade policies from a critical feminist perspective. IGTN is currently organized in eight regions: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Pacific.
    Badjens.Com is an English-language feminist online magazine mainly addressing readers outside Iran. Its goal is to improve links between activists and academics inside and outside the country.
  • PeaceWomen.org is a project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) United Nations Office, in New York City. The PeaceWomen Project monitors and works toward rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.
  • The Treatment Action Campaign of South Africa has initiated an End Violence Against Women Campaign.
  • The United Nations has an official site for all its reports, including a sight regarding The United Nations fourth World Conference on Women. This site reports on the conference with links to other U.N. information on the status of women worldwide 
  • The Women's International Center is a non-profit and service foundation 
  • A link concerning Women and Globalization
  • The World March of Women is an international feminist action network connecting about 6000 grass-roots groups in 163 countries and territories working to eliminate poverty and violence against women. You'll find here our founding documents.

Feminist Links

  • The Feminist Majority has a homepage of news, links, publications and reports, all feminist/activist-oriented.
  • The Choices Campus Community A new interactive web site by the The Feminist Majority Foundation's (FMF) Campus Leadership Program.  Designed specifically to promote leadership among young feminists, the Choices Campus Community uses cutting-edge technology to connect feminist student leaders, supportive faculty and community members throughout the US and the world.
  • Women Leaders Online has a purpose of mobilizing women on the Internet. Links to many different types of articles. 
  • The National Women's Studies Association offers information on their organization and upcoming NWSA conferences.
  • National Council for Research on Women has a mission is to enhance the connections among research, policy analysis, advocacy, and innovative programming on behalf of women and girls.


  Women's History

  • Irene Stuber's Women of Achievement page is in progress and will soon be an encyclopedia of historical information on women. 
  • National Women's History Project page. Contains many links and lots of useful information.
  • The CWLU Herstory is a large and growing site devoted to recording the history of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (1969-1977) as well as archiving general documents from the second wave of feminism

Women in the Arts 

Women in Education and other Women's Studies Programs 

Women in the Workplace 

  • Insider Views on Workplace Issues provides firsthand insights about issues affecting women who work in traditionally male-dominated business settings. Join those who have been in the trenches and become more informed about the experiences of working women. 
  • Women in business at Digital Women was created for women looking for a place to gather resources, free business tips and a place to network with other business women and women-owned businesses.
  • Advancing Women is a newsletter for women in the businessworld


 

Women in Science 

  • Women and Minorities in Scienceis a page at MIT with information and sites on women in the sciences. 
  • WITI, or Women in Technology International is an international association that provides resources for women in science and technology fields.
  • TAP is a great homepage filled with discussion and articles about women in computing. 
  • Women of NASA sponsors a homepage encouraging women to become interested in math related fields. 
  • Women in engineering and Industry lets a woman know everything she needs about going into either engineering or industry. 

Women's Journals and E-zines 


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