Westfield State University Ely Library
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Women's Studies Online Resources
(Joan Korenman, University of Maryland Baltimore)
http://www.umbc.edu/wmst/
This is an excellent site to locate WS's resources on the Net.
Institute for Women's Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org/
This page is put together by "a public policy research organization
dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues
of critical importance to women and their families." Topics include
poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, health
care and domestic violence, and more.
MEDLINEplus:
Women's Health Topics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/womenshealth.html
The National Office on Women's Health
http://www.4women.gov/
High quality health information that can be accessed by Topic or Keyword.
International Women's Health Coalition
http://www.iwhc.org/
American
Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of
History and Culture in the U.S.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/index.html
This gateway includes a print research guide of the same name, along
with "illustrations and links to existing digitized material located throughout
the Library of Congress Web site." In addition to the Research Guide,
information on how to search for women's history resources in the Library's
catalogs; guidance on finding materials relating to women within the Library's
American Memory collections; and helpful orientations to women's history
sources in the Library's online exhibitions and audiovisual Web broadcasts
of lectures, readings, and symposia are also included.
National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/
There is a lot of information on this site, but of particular interest
is the Resource Center.
Women and Politics Institute
American University
http://wandp.american.edu/
Institute for Women's Policy Research
http://www.iwpr.org/
National Women's Political Caucus
http://www.nwpc.org/
American
Association of University Women: Legal Advocacy Fund
http://www.aauw.org/advocacy/laf/
Women's
Law Initiative
http://www.womenslaw.org/
Ontario Women's Justice
Network (Canada)
http://www.owjn.org/
WomenWarPeace.org
http://www.womenwarpeace.org/frontpage
Feminist
Majority Foundation's Global Feminism
http://www.feminist.org/global/
Working Women's Forum
(India)
http://www.workingwomensforum.org/
This site addresses the "struggles of poor women workers against caste,
class and gender oppression." It attempts to unify those needing
support.
Women
Watch: The UN Working for Women
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
Global Fund for Women
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/
Social Development in Asia-Pacific (United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific)
http://www.unescap.org/sdd
The
Foundation Center
http://foundationcenter.org/
Look here for information on foundations that
are providing grants of all types.
Grants.gov
http://www.grants.gov/
"Grants.gov was established as a governmental resource named the E-Grants
Initiative, part of the President's 2002 Fiscal Year Management Agenda
to improve government services to the public....Today, Grants.gov is a
central storehouse for information on over 1,000 grant programs and provides
access to approximately $400 billion in annual awards."