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TIP: Press Ctrl/f and enter a root word, word, or phrase in the Find what: box and click on Find Next to search for a topic on this page. For example, type activ to search for activist, active, activism.

GenderNet
This site from the World Bank "This site describes how the Bank seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development."

Magazines and Newsletters on the Web (Women-Focused)
This site is maintained by University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian and features an alphabetical list of links to women-focused periodicals on the Web.

Northern Arizona University Women's Studies Program
This AZ listing from the Women's Studies Program at Northern Arizona University includes links to over 70 subjects, archives, current news, glossaries, dictionaries, definitions, reference guides, and statistical databases.

Subject Listing of Women and Gender Resources
Look here for comprehensive Internet information about women from the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office. Subject listings include agriculture, anthropology, art, biography, book trade and reviews, business information and commercial sites, disability resources, domestic violence, education, film and video, girls' development, health, higher education, history, info. tech. and computer science, international conferences, concerns & resources, language and linguistics, legal studies, lesbian sites, librarianship, magazines, media, news and communications sources, military, music, older women, organizations, peace, philanthropy and funding, philosophy and feminist theory, politics, science/math/technology, sexual harassment and assault, sports, statistical resources, theology and religion, welfare reform, women's space on the 'net, women and work, women of color in the U.S., other groups of American women, and women of other Countries, women's studies programs, departments, research centers, libraries and archives and writers.

Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites
"Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites is a selective, annotated, highly acclaimed listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program". The site is maintained by Joan Korenman, Director of Women's Studies and Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Korenman provides comprehensive annotated listings of information-rich web sites that include activism, art, humanities, history, health, international, periodicals, science/ technology, sexuality, women of color, women's studies programs and research centers.

WSSLINKS (Women's Studies Section Links) Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
WSSLINKS, "developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section Collection Development Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries, provides access to a wide range of Web subject resources in support of Women's Studies." Categories include: general, archives, art, business, culture (mostly literature), education, film, health, history, international, lesbian sites, music, philosophy, politics, science and technology and theology.

WWWomen: The Premier Search Directory for Women Online
WWWomen focuses on building and maintaining a comprehensive women's search directory on the Internet. This commercial site may be searched by keyword(s) or subject categories including: art & entertainment, women in business, community/government, computers/Internet, diversity among women, education, feminism, health & safety, lesbian visibility, mothers/parenting, personal time, publications, women's resources, science/technology, women go shopping, women's sports, and women throughout history.

For more information on the library web site about women in history, go to Women's History WWW Resources.

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Revised (December 22, 2008)
Created (March 1998)
Current Author: Carolyn Johnson
Links Verified (October 2008)