Micah Scott – Women's Knowledge Digital Library

Lesson Plan: Beyond Pink and Blue: The Impact of Gender Stereotypes

Students will learn about how gender stereotypes affect them and explore how gender is portrayed in the media.

Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

This open access textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary field of women, gender, and sexualities.

Gendered Lives: Global Issues

An open access gender studies textbook that takes an anthropological approach.

Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies

An eTextbook designed to provide an introduction to the fields of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies

UN Women Training Centre

The UN Women Training Centre eLearning Campus is a global and innovative online platform for training for gender equality.

GET (Gender Equity Training): The Project

GET: THE PROJECT is a bold, new strategic initiative from The Representation Project that provides comprehensive tools to empower youth, educators, counselors, coaches, and parents to leverage film and media for cultural change within their communities. Developed in collaboration with experts in curriculum design, gender justice, education, mental health, and youth advocacy, and with insightful input from our Youth Advisory Council, the program is offered FREE to all.

Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals

The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals is a member-based organization working toward the liberation of LGBTQ people in higher education.

Asian Association of Women’s Studies

An organization that serves as a forum to promote and discuss feminist education and research.

A Queer Resilience: Reviving Indigenous-Pacific Perspectives and Practices

Article that explores the complicated notion of resilience among PIDSOGIESC+ communities.

Workplace Gender Equality Agency Data & Statistics

WGEA publishes data and statistics on gender pay gaps, gender composition of the workforce, parental leave, flexible work, employee consultation and employer actions to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace on our Data Explorer.

How Algorithmic Design of Tech Platforms Normalizes Gendered Violence

A look at recent technology-facilitated gender based violence

Femme International

Using Education, Advocacy, Distribution and Research to address issues surrounding menstruation in a sustainable, community-based approach.

How Natural Black Hair at Work Became a Civil Rights Issue

On the 55th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, U.S. courts are still divided about African Americans’ right to wear their natural hair in the workplace.

Period. Inc.

Advocating for systemic change through law and advocacy.

Breast Implant Illness: Symptoms, Outcomes with Explantation and Potential Etiologies – A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

This study analyzes breast implant illness.

Women’s Microfinance Initiative

WMI believes that increasing financial inclusion and teaching financial literacy empowers poor women to take control of their livelihoods and their lives.

The Okra Project

Black trans led mutual aid.

The Impacts of Anti-Transgender Laws and Policies: Evidence from Empirical Research

With immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, and more at risk, we’re in courts and communities across the country to protect everyone’s rights — and we need you with us.

Trapped in Texas: How Federal – and Now State – Immigration Enforcement Traps People Trying to Escape Texas’ Abortion Ban

With immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, and more at risk, we’re in courts and communities across the country to protect everyone’s rights — and we need you with us.

Girls Like Me: Why Empowerment Isn’t Enough

This talk is a powerful reflection on how societal expectations shape girls’ confidence and calls for redesigning systems – not just empowering individuals – so that ambition, leadership, and innovation by women and marginalized groups become defaults rather than exceptions.

Gender, World Bank

Unlocking the full potential of women and girls is a priority for the World Bank Group.

Where Women Are

This collection captures some of the stories and experiences of women participating in the heated 2017 general election in Kenya in order to shed light on the nuances and complexities facing women who choose to enter electoral politics.

Women and the informal economy in urban Africa

In this open-access book, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women’s movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning.

Equal Pay Day: Gender pay gap hits historic low in 2024

Today is Equal Pay Day, a reminder that there is still a significant pay gap between men and women in our country. The date represents how far into 2025 women would have to work on top of the hours they worked in 2024 simply to match what men were paid in 2024.

Gendering Women: Identity and Mental Wellbeing Through the Lifecourse

An engaging account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women’s mental well-being.

Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin

A history of women’s activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002.

We Need to Do This

We Need to Do This is the story of Alberta women’s shelters.

Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, legal practice and women’s activism

Sexual Assault in Canada is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada.

Women in German Expressionism

This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and representations of women’s and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works.

Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology

This open access book explores what makes women decide to pursue a career in male-dominated fields such as information technology (IT).

Erotically Queer

Erotically Queer is a practice guide for clinicians, bringing together experts in their field with pioneering topics within GSRD (gender, sex and relationship diversity).

Negotiating Women’s Veiling: Politics & Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia

This study will focus on the Indonesian jilbab, an ubiquitous piece of cloth that covers the hair and neck of women tightly, leaving no skin unconcealed.

Mujeres y politica en Rio Negro (1983-2021)

In light of legislation, political reforms, and the growing feminist mobilization in recent years, this collective publication investigates the conditions of access and political participation of women in the province of Río Negro, Argentina, in the period from the recovery of democracy in 1983 to 2021.

Women as Candidates in American Politics

In this second edition, Susan Carroll updates her pioneering study of women candidates and their campaigns in the aftermath of the “Year of the Woman.”

Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa

Narratives of Triumph and Loss explores the successes, challenges and controversies of women‘s post-conflict political leadership.

African Women in Governance

African Women in Governance: Policies and Stakeholder’s Participation presents the assumptions, narratives, and institutions that underpin the key concepts and investigate the limits and potential of financial inclusion development strategy for gender equality.

Women and Power in Africa

This book examines women’s experiences in African politics as aspirants to public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected representatives.

Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments

Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia.

Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey

Through a comparative focus on Iran and Turkey, Mona Tajali examines the activities and strategies of women’s rights groups across the ideological spectrum.

Situating Women

The first book to write women into Fiji’s postcolonial history, providing a detailed historical account of that country’s gender politics across four tumultuous decades.

The Politics of Women’s Suffrage

A history of the early twentieth-century movement for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

Women and the Public Life in Early Meiji Japan

Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan focuses on women’s activities in the new public spaces of Meiji Japan.

Technology and Women’s Empowerment

This book contributes to the growing body of literature and present state of knowledge, offering the reader broad evidence on how new information and communication technologies impact women’s economic and social empowerment and hence have an impact on overall welfare creation.

Sound Citizens

This book reveals a much broader and more complex history of women’s contributions to Australian broadcasting than has been previously acknowledged.

Female Bodies and Female Practitioners

The contributions collected here discuss the emergence, transfer and transformations of theoretical and practical gynaecologic knowledge in ancient medical and other traditions

The Girl in the Pandemic

The Girl in the Pandemic considers what academics, community activists, and those working in local, national, and global NGOs are learning about the lives of girls and young women during pandemics.

The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap

Despite pay discrimination becoming illegal over half a century ago, the pay gap between men and women persists—an inequity that continues to hurt our nation’s workers and our national economy.

Gender Inequality, Work Hours, and the Future of Work

Gender differences in paid and unpaid time at work are an important aspect of gender inequality.

Purpose & Resistance: Black Women Workers Confronting Occupational Segregation

This report seeks to deepen understanding, highlight stories and strengths, and build a collaborative community with Black women workers.

Changing The Reproductive Rights Conversation

A discussion on changing the reproductive rights conversation.

Sexual Reproductive Health Rights

Melodi Tamarzians talks about her experience with sexual reproductive health rights and abortion at the 2018 edition of TEDxYouth@Maastricht.

Rape culture isn’t invisible – we’ve just been trained not to see it

In this powerful talk, Dr. Christal Badour, a clinical psychologist and trauma expert, explores how rape culture shapes the everyday lives of survivors—and what must change for healing to begin.

Three Truths to End Sexual Violence

We’ve been misinformed about sexual violence and what works to prevent it. Armed with the truth, we have a fighting chance to stop sexual assault — individually, and as a culture. Lynne Marie Wanamaker is the Associate Executive Director of Safe Passage, Inc., Hampshire County’s domestic violence services provider, as well as a founding member of the Empowerment Self Defense Alliance (ESDA).

What Female Health Challenges is Costing our Communities

An obstetrician-gynaecologist by training, Mairo Mandara works with the foundation’s Nigerian partners to help improve the lives of the country’s poorest people.

Sex Education…With Pleasure

What is missing from current sex education, besides correct medical information, current scientific data, and misleading and religious talk? Pleasure!

Why Maternal Health Must Be Part of Climate Solutions

When we talk about who is most vulnerable to climate change, we don’t often talk about pregnant women. Veronica Gillispie-Bell thinks we should

What’s in a Gender?

In their TEDxPCL talk, gender specialist and founder of /Queer, Georgie Williams, unpacks the key facets of gender from biological, psychological and sociocultural perspectives and asks the crucial question- what’s in a gender?

Tackling The Boy Crisis

In the world of gender studies, Michael Kimmel is what you might describe as an early adopter. He has spent much of the last forty years calling himself a feminist. But for a good deal of his career as an academic and writer, he has been thinking and exploring the behavior of men, and believes that feminism can be men’s salvation.

The Secret History of The ENIAC Women

We recorded extensive oral histories and produced a film called “The Computers: The Remarkable Untold Story of the ENIAC Programmers.”

Reaching for help

This book presents an account of the ideas, the diverse and shared efforts and the enduring hard work of women’s health activists, drawn together in one volume for the first time.

Breastfeeding and everyday life

Many breastfeeding moms have questions. Learn the answers here.

Breastfeeding and Breast Milk

Breastfeeding provides an infant with essential calories, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients for optimal growth, health, and development.

Once Baby Arrives from Food Safety for Moms to Be

Here’s how you, grandparents, and caregivers can help keep baby’s food safe from here on…

A Period Positive World Vision

Video discussing the fundamental shift needed to acknowledge menstrual hygiene as a right worldwide

Pleasure and Power: Why Pleasure Must Be Part of Consent Education

Despite strides in promoting body autonomy, sexual liberation, and gender equality, societal and political stigmas continue to shadow discussions about sex and pleasure in every corner of society.

Gimnasia educativa basica

The book was adapted from an investigation whose objective was to determine the effect of the application of the DEPREPCEP Program in the learning of Basic Gymnastics in girls from the Gymnastics League of Puno (Perú).

High Five Grant for Moms

If you’re both a mother and business owner: We see you, we support you, and we recognize your efforts with your company and kid(s). Since 2018, we’ve been granting business dreams to women like you.

Your Guide to Breastfeeding

This easy-to-read publication has how-to information and support to help women breastfeed.

National Women’s Health and Breastfeeding Hotline

Do you have a women’s health question or trouble with breastfeeding?

Do No Harm

To understand the gaps within our healthcare system, we must pay attention to the racially based algorithms and unconscious bias.

Why we need a Title IX for research

Only 6% of athletic performance research focuses on females, this means that the “best practices” guiding our training are mostly made up rather than rooted in science. Not only is this keeping women from reaching their true potentials, but it also puts them at real (but avoidable) risks.

Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace.

Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities

A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities

Women’s Emancipation and Civil Society Organizations

This collection examines the nexus between the emancipation of women, and their role(s) in these organisations.

Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces

This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces – in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise – as a prism to explore grassroots women’s engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy.

Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War

This open access book helps correct an egregious gender bias in contemporary accounts of a major episode in 20th-century African decolonization.

Women’s Activism and “Second Wave” Feminism

Book that situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women’s activism.

Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment

This open access book examines the relationship between trade and women’s economic empowerment by focusing on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in six countries.

Leah Thomas Talks Environmental Justice

Leah Thomas is an environmental justice advocate and author. She shares what sparked her passion for environmentalism, how systemic racism fuels environmental injustice, and how we can work together to support lasting solutions to our planet’s problems.

What does the shape of your hair say about you?

A hair artist expert discovers the hair strand is the key to connecting people in a beautiful way.

Enacting Citizenship

This book presents new studies of Kurdish women’s activism and its implications for their rights and the dynamics of citizenship.

Statistics That Make the Invisible Visible

In a world where we quantify everything from GDP to happiness, can you put a number on gender equality?

Statistical Resources

In March 2006, the Women’s Health Research Institute was established by BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre to enhance and galvanize the impact of women’s health research conducted at BC Women’s Hospital and throughout BC.

In search of equality

The contributors to this volume provide insights into women’s rights in seven African countries – Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. Each looks at the causes, context and consequences of the struggle to uphold women’s rights.

Recovering Identity

Recovering Identity examines a critical tension in criminalized women’s identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraéa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined in opposition to past identities as “criminal-addicts.”

The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies

The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions between these two fields.

Feminine Persuasion

Marking 50 years since the publication of noted sexologist Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Feminine Persuasion: Art and Essays on Sexuality celebrates the diverse and multifaceted expressions of women’s sexuality that have emerged since Kinsey’s study heralded a new era.

Marleen Gorris

Book about the Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris

Shut Out of Power: New Report Shows Young Women and Girls See the Barriers of Underrepresentation and Want Change

National Women’s History Museum’s new report reveals the challenges they face, what they need, why representation matters and what we can do about it.

Eva, the crash test dummy

Astrid Linder has spent over 20 years in traffic safety research. In this talk she proves with data from multiple sources that our cars are unnecessarily unsafe for women, simply because all crash test dummies are still based on the average male.

Nightwood Theatre: A Woman’s Work Is Always Done

A feminist theatre company’s journey toward defining itself and highlighting its artistic leadership

Dancing Motherhood

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact mothers working in it.

Dancing Opacity: Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism and Queer Possibility in Senegal

Chronicles the ways in which contemporary dancers in Senegal navigate the global contemporary dance circuit while challenging heteropatriarchal ideologies at home.

Jane Austen among Women

In an age when genteel women wrote little more than personal letters, how did Jane Austen manage to become a novelist?

Online Anti-Rape Activism: Exploring the Politics of the Personal in the Age of Digital Media

This book examines the nature, use, and scope of online spaces for anti-rape activism.

When Protest Makes Policy: How Social Movements Represent Disadvantaged Groups

A book exploring what role social movements play in a democracy.

Bridging Divides Between Gender-Just Citizenship

This open access book explores how to build a gender-just peace in which women’s political citizenship is foregrounded through a case study of Northern Ireland.

How the media is sexist towards women political leaders

Reflecting from her personal stories and her doctoral research, political scientist Blair Williams examines five key gendered tropes used by the media.

Women Founders Network

Each year Women Founders Network creates a unique opportunity for Female Founders.

The Papaya Grant

From one female-founder to another. Calling all female entrepreneurs: What would you do with $10,000?

Kitty Fund Mompreneur Business Grant

The Kitty Fund makes small micro investments in Moms who are running employer-based small businesses with two or more employees.

Born Intersex: we are human!

Anunnaki is the Director of Gender/Intersex Education for PFLAG of Jacksonville, as well as an Intersex Advocate for Partnership for Child Health’s Jacksonville Youth Equality. He has become a gender/intersex activist and educator for all intersex, gender variant, and transgender children who have no voice and are being medically and psychiatrically harmed.

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination

Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination explores how feminist acts of imaginative expression, community-building, scholarship, and activism create new possibilities for women experiencing forced migration in the twenty-first century

Sisters in Peace

In Sisters in Peace, Kate Laing contends that this question has never been solely the concern of politicians and strategists.

Famous, pregnant and watched: Renee Cramer at TEDxDeMoines Women

Video explores the cultural fascination with pregnant celebrities.

A Feeling of Belonging

Book on the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American women from 1930 to 1960.

Sex Sounds

A book that looks at sexual themes in electronic music since the 1950s

Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums, and Yoginis

This Special Issue is entitled “Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums, and Yoginis: Holy Women as ‘Influencers’ in Hindu Culture” and features emerging research on holy women from different disciplinary perspectives

Women and the Catholic Church

Introducing a new methodological approach to studying Catholic women, this open access book provides fresh insights into women’s religious and spiritual experiences and church participation.

Cripping Girlhood

Cripping Girlhood offers a new theorization of disabled girlhood, tracing how and why representations of disabled girls emerge with frequency in twenty-first century U.S. media culture.

Asexual Erotics

Book on the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from the late 1960s to the present.

Intersex care in the United States and international standards of human rights

In this study, we tracked the human rights arguments by international institutions that effectively impacted clinical standards for the care of intersex persons around the globe during this decade, and we studied the use of rhetoric by key policy stakeholders that seek to uphold intersex medical care in the United States to these international standards.

Breastfeeding Report Cards

Find the most up-to-date early childhood nutrition and breastfeeding data and published reports.

Lose Hate Not Weight

Virgie Tovar, fat activist and recovering dieter, advocates hate loss over weight loss.

The Power of Voice

In this video, University of Minnesota speech pathologist Marilyn Fairchild opens up a safe space for talking about how our language can affect those around us and how we can all improve our communication for the betterment of society

Gender Data 101

Gender Data 101 equips you with the skills to use data for impactful programs, closing gender gaps and promoting gender equality

Key data on girls and womens right to education

Many girls and women cannot exercise their right to education due to gender inequality and discriminatory practices.

Women, Business, and the Law Index

The index measures how laws and regulations affect women’s economic opportunity on a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 means equal legal rights for men and women.

Research & Data

Measuring outcomes is essential to ensuring we provide girls with the right support and opportunities they need to thrive.

Women’s Health

Data on women’s health in the US.

Status of Women in the States

The data can be used to raise awareness, improve policies, and promote women’s equality. Explore the data here!

Women’s Business Centers

WBCs provide free, to low-cost counseling and training and focus on women who want to start, grow, and expand their small business.

Global Gender Gap Report

The annual Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks the state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions.

Overview of data resources on gender equality across the world

Resources and data on global gender equality.

WomanStats

The fate of nations is tied
to the status of women. WomanStats makes this linkage visible and demonstrable.

Gender pay gap in US has narrowed slightly over 2 decades

The gender gap in pay has slightly narrowed in the United States over the past 20 years or so.

Feeding My Baby

This University of Illinois Extension website provides expert information to put you at ease when feeding your baby.

Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity

Examining women’s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women’s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement.

Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond

This collaborative monograph presents a deeply researched, inclusive history of women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe, Austria, Turkey and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late twentieth century.

Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture

Studies the intersection of painting and femininity in 16th & 17th-century Europe as a site for exploring abstract ideas of gender construction and subjectivity

The largest untapped pool of talent in business: women

In this TEDx talk Mahdis Gharaei reveals a compelling case that forward thinking organisations can’t afford to ignore: the immense potential of women in leadership and the competitive advantage of diversity in business.

Decolonizing Interventions for Workplace Gender Equity: An Intersectional and Latin American Lens

Although gender equity is acknowledged as a global objective, existing progress parameters and interventions predominantly align with Western contexts and academic traditions, which often overlook the complex realities of the Majority World. This paper provides a critique of the dominance of such approaches and highlights the challenges of applying them universally.

Work-life balance: balancing time or balancing identity?

Some argue that women choose not to go into particular jobs, often because of the hours required and the sacrifices that need to be made. But what is really going on?

Pop culture is teaching the wrong “lessons” about gender and sexuality

Teachers can interrupt the institutionalized misogyny being spread by popular culture and teach more accurate lessons about girls and women.

Black Girl Ventures Foundation Grant

At BGV, we create access to capital, capacity, and community for under-resourced entrepreneurs that enable business sustainability and create intergenerational wealth for a more equitable society.

Enthuse Foundation

Community. Education. Capital. A non-profit dedicated to empowering women entrepreneurs to grow from new to next.

Tory Burch Foundation

The Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program connects extraordinary women entrepreneurs with the essential tools to scale, lead and shape the economy

Gender Pay Gap

Empowering EduNations Students Through Skills Training: A Transformative Partnership with Lighting The Path

Pregnancy and body image

You can learn ways to cope with feelings about your body’s changes during and after pregnancy.

Navigating Asexual Identities

Within the asexual community, there are many ways for people to identify.

The Ace and Aro Project 101 Pamphlet

This is the PDF for a pamphlet that TAAAP created that cover some basic concepts, vocabulary, and struggles within asexual and aromantic communities.

Project Implicit

Select an Implicit Association Test from a list of possible topics.

Women in the labor force

The rapid rise in women’s labor force participation was a major development in the labor market during the second half of the 20th century.

Women in the American Workforce

The report, which also highlights continuing challenges in our workforce demographics, uses EEO-1 data to track employment participation from 1966 to 2013 for several demographic groups, including women.

The history of women’s work and wages and how it has created success for all of us

As we celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, we should also celebrate the major strides women have made in the labor market. Their entry into paid work has been a major factor in America’s prosperity over the past century and a quarter.

What Does Intersex Mean?

How much do you really know about the history of the word “Intersex”? Find out on this episode of InQueery hosted by them.’s own Maria Tridas.

Bi: the hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality

In writing and researching her book ‘Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality’, Dr Julia Shaw explored how people have defined and measured bisexuality, uncovered its surprisingly long and important history, and learned about some famous bisexual, pansexual, and plurisexual activists and scholars whom everyone should know.

Association for women’s rights in development

AWID is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide.

National Faith and HIV Awareness Day

AIDS United hosted a webinar for National Faith and HIV Awareness Day on Aug. 27.

AIDS United

Our Mission: To end the HIV epidemic in the United States.

Madre

Transcending geographies and generations to deliver sustainable gender, racial, disability, & climate justice.

MCSR

PROMOTING Healthy Masculinity and Empowered Womanhood,
Rooted in Community, Based in Strength, AND Grounded in Respect.

Advocates for Trans Equality

Advocates for Trans Equality is tracking all of the latest executive orders and the Trump Administration’s ongoing attacks on the trans community. Our lawyers and policy experts are on the front lines of this fight, and we need your support.

Dating Violence

Adults may think of teenage relationships as superficial, short-lived, and insignificant. However, a growing field of research suggests that behaviors in teen relationships shape future adult relationships.

Female Education as Reflected in Victorian Fiction

While I was studying at Columbia University, this subject, Female Education As Reflected In Victorian Fiction, was suggested to me as the basis for a thesis.

The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project

Our vision is a society that understands and accepts the full range of differences in people’s sexual and romantic desires, attractions, behaviors, and orientations, and does not privilege any.

Aro Worlds

Aromantic narratives and creativity.

What is Asexuality?

Asexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by a persistent lack of sexual attraction toward any gender.

Self Care, Criminalized: The Criminalization of Self-Managed Abortion from 2000-2020

This research provides an evidence-based perspective on the criminalization of abortion, and it aims to provide guidance for abortion seekers; those who support them; and advocates seeking to shift the law, expand access to all methods of abortion care, and advance reproductive justice.

Cyber Sexual Assault Support

How Communities Can Support Survivors of Stalking

Thriving Through and mensen collaborated to build this resource for people who are supporting a loved one who is experiencing stalking.

Guide to Being an Ally to LGBTQ+ People

Formerly known as the guide to being a straight ally this publication, now in its fifth edition, is a guide for allies, by allies.

Where We Are on TV 2024 – 2025

GLAAD’s annual Where We Are On TV report propels national conversations about LGBTQ representation.

Still Bisexual

Building acceptance, awareness and understanding of those who are attracted to more than one gender.

Feminist Pedagogy

Journal of scholarship on higher education teaching strategies and approaches from an intersectional feminist perspective.

Same-Sex Parents Raising Kids

Interviews with queer people about their experiences as parents.

How Americans See Men and Masculinity

Republican men stand out in views of their own masculinity, changing gender roles and men’s progress in recent decades.

Same-Sex Marriage Around the World

Use the interactive table below to sort the places allowing same-sex marriages by name, region and the year legal same-sex marriage took effect.

Religion and spirituality among LGBT Americans

This Pew Research Center analysis explores how adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender approach religion and spirituality.

Under G-d

Inspired by the lawsuits filed in Florida challenging the state’s abortion ban on the basis of religious freedom, Under G-d is a documentary short film about the national Jewish response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization U.S. Supreme Court decision woven through the lived experiences of impacted Jewish women.

Impact of US Refugee Admissions Overhaul on LGBTQI+ Refugees

Study on the impact of admissions overhaul from the US on queer refugees.

Gender-Affirming Health Care Needs, Barriers to Care, and Health and Wellbeing in a Broad Nationwide Sample of Transgender People in Norway

Sample of trans people in Germany and their needs and barriers to health.

The Impact of 2025 Anti-Transgender Legislation on Youth

Study on impact of anti-trans legislation on youth.

Williams Institute

The Williams Institute conducts independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. We ensure that facts—not stereotypes—inform laws, policies, and judicial decisions that affect the LGBT community.

Shout Your Abortion

Shout Your Abortion is normalizing abortion and elevating safe paths to access, regardless of legality.

Represent Women

At RepresentWomen, we imagine a healthy 21st century democracy with gender-balanced representation in elected and appointed positions, at every level of government.

Our Bodies Ourselves

Your accurate and inclusive guide to health, sexuality, and reproductive justice.

League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization working to protect and expand voting rights and ensure everyone is represented in our democracy. We empower voters and defend democracy through advocacy, education, and litigation, at the local, state, and national levels.

The 2025 Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda

Over 50 Black-led organizations and activists have collaborated to create this comprehensive roadmap to protect and uplift Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people.

INCITE!

A network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities.

If When How

We are an abortion and pregnancy defense fund.

Coalition of Labor Union Women

The Coalition of Labor Union Women is America’s only national organization for union women. Formed in 1974, CLUW is a nonpartisan organization within the union movement.

World’s Abortion Laws

The definitive record of the legal status of abortion in countries and territories across the globe, updated in real time.

Abortion Access Front

We are a coven of hilarious badass feminists who use humor and pop culture to expose the haters fighting against reproductive rights.

Against the Heresy of Immanence: Vatican ‘Gender’ as a New Rhetorical Device Against the Denaturalization of the Sexual Order

This article understands the Vatican’s invention of
‘gender ideology’ as a new rhetorical device produced both to delegitimize feminist and
LGBTQ studies and struggles and to reaffirm that sexual norms transcend historical and political arrangements.

Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines

Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines is the first volume to bring together leading feminist thinkers from across the disciplines to explore the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and related data-driven technologies on human society.

Glitch

Glitch imagines a world where internet technologies and the information ecosystem are ethical, equitable and just — for Black women and Black gender-expansive people.

Centering Queer Latinx/a/o Experiences and Knowledge: Guidelines and Knowledge: Guidelines for using Joteria Studies in Higher Education Qualitative Research

Jotería Studies as a research paradigm shifts the possibilities to intentionally speak to the experiences of the queer Latinx/a/o community. Therefore, the purpose of this manuscript is to offer guidelines for qualitative researchers to use Jotería Studies to study topics of higher education.

Journal of International Women’s Studies

A peer-reviewed open-access feminist journal.

Palestinian Feminist Reading List

This reading list was created as a resource for anyone seeking new feminist reading by Palestinian authors. Many Palestine-focused reading lists have been created, but we did not find one centering on feminism.

Family Planning High Impact Practices

High Impact Practices (HIPs) are a set of evidence-based family planning practices vetted by experts against specific criteria and documented in an easy-to-use format.

Feminist Conversations on Peace

This collection brings together conversations between feminists from different parts of the world that conceptualize and expand understandings of ‘feminist peace’.

Building Peace in the Shadow of War: Women-to-Women Diplomacy as Alternative Peacebuilding Practice in Myanmar

Conventional assumptions locating peacebuilding temporally after violence have largely prevented exploration of how peacebuilding is practiced amidst conditions of ongoing violence. This article addresses this gap by analyzing how Myanmar women’s activists have devised strategies in pursuit of peace, amidst ongoing armed conflict, from the 1990s and onwards.

Conceptualizing Extreme Misogyny

The current paper aims to address this gap by employing a multi-layered analytical framework of different misogynist communities.

Fat Lib Archive

This archive is an offering. A collection of the fat liberation cultural and organizing history we have access to.

Solar sister

At Solar Sister, we invest in local women entrepreneurs to start, grow, and sustain successful clean energy businesses, so they can build a brighter future for themselves, their families, and the world.

Fat phobia and its racist past and present

Where does our preference for thinness really come from? As Sabrina Strings explains in her book, Fearing the Black Body, the answer is much more complicated than health or aesthetics.

The criminalization of psychiatric disabilities through the lens of critical disability theory

Presentation on disability as it relates to the criminal justice sysem.

Ace and Aro: Understanding Differences in Romantic Attractions Among Persons Identifying as Asexual

Study compared romantic and aromantic asexual individuals through secondary data analysis

Understanding Asexuality

Within the asexual community, there are many ways for people to identify.

Women and Girls in Climate Activism

Blog post from the U.S. Office of Global Women’s Issues

Amnesty International: Women’s Rights

A look at the history of women’s rights, what women’s rights actually are, and what Amnesty is doing.

National Organization for Women

The largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States.

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

This 16 Days of Activism 2025, join us as we rally for a world where technology is a force for equality – not harm.

2024 National Survey on LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health

The Trevor Project’s 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People

The Strong Black Woman Trope, Explained

This video looks at the history and meaning behind the Strong Black Woman Trope.

Soraya Chemaly on the power of women’s rage

At All About Women 2019 writer and activist Soraya Chemaly called for an ungendering of emotion for the benefit of everybody

Disability Activism Do’s and Dont’s

Ultimately, the purpose of this post is to educate, inform, and spread awareness. So, if you’re going to do disability advocacy and or activism, here are some things to avoid:

Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network

AWN is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit. We are committed to disability justice, gender & racial equity, neurodiversity & trans liberation with a focus on transformative and restorative justice in disability spaces.

Black Girls and Sexual Violence

TEDx talk about the issue of sexual violence as it pertains to Black girls.

Gender nonbinary vs. Gender-fluid (and other words!)

In this video, Dr. Lorri Sulpizio talks about why people are pushing back on gender, and she explains two commonly used terms: gender nonbinary and gender-fluid.

From data to action: protecting the next generation of women

Every second, three girls experience sexual violence. One in five girls will face sexual violence before she turns 18. Experiencing sexual violence in childhood has lasting physical, mental, educational, and economic consequences that carry into womanhood. The effects don’t disappear—they shape a woman’s life.

Gender Ratio

On this page, we provide an overview of how the gender ratio varies across the world and over time. We present data on how it varies between age groups and the forces that influence the gender ratio.

Key data on girls and women’s right to education

This page presents several graphics analyzing the data generated from HerAtlas, UNESCO’s interactive tool monitoring girls and women’s right to education worldwide.

Gender Inequality in Education – Empowering Women and Girls

Gender Equality is essential for a just and thriving society, yet barriers still exist worldwide. Explore the key challenges, progress made, and actions you can take to support equal rights and opportunities for all.

The World’s Women 2020: Trends and Statistics

“Twenty-five years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, progress towards equal power and equal rights for women remains elusive. No country has achieved gender equality, and the COVID-19 crisis threatens to erode the limited gains that have been made. The Decade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and efforts to recover better from the pandemic offer a chance to transform the lives of women and girls, today and tomorrow.” – Secretary-General António Guterres

Women in the Workplace 2025: The 10th-anniversary report

Women face less career support and fewer opportunities to advance as companies show declining commitment to women’s progress. While women are as dedicated to their careers as men, there is a gap in their desire for promotion. That’s according to the latest Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey and LeanIn.Org.

The Gender Snapshot 2025

Explore key findings on gender equality across all SDGs with data and visuals on the most pressing issues affecting women and girls globally.

Gender gains and gaps in the US

Ahead of Women’s History Month, here’s a look at some of these trends and data points, based on Pew Research Center surveys and analyses as well as federal data.

Overview of data resources on gender equality across the world

This overview focusing on the access to contraception around the world is one of the components of a special report dedicated to gender inequalities in the world in 2025.

Laverne Cox Presents: ‘The T Word’ Full Documentary

Documentary on the lives of trans youth.

The Malala Fund

Malala Fund is working for a world where every girl can learn and choose her own future.

India Gender Report

The India Gender Report – the first of its kind – is conceived and envisaged in the context of the many gendered rights that are enshrined in the Constitution of India.

Police Violence Against Sex Workers

Stay informed about new campaigns, resources and activities. In a time of online censorship and constantly changing algorithms, a trusted newsletter is one of the most reliable ways to stay in touch. Subscribe here to make sure you stay in the loop!

Women Enabled International – toolkits

As feminists with disabilities and allies, we advance human rights and justice at the intersection of gender and disability to challenge exclusionary, unjust systems and support the leadership and center the voices of women, girls, and gender-diverse people with disabilities globally.

Waking Women Healing Institute

A nonprofit providing support to Indigenous women.

Safety Net Project

Exploring technology safety in the context of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and violence against women.

Cyber Sexual Assault Support

Dr. Spring Cooper is a professor at CUNY. She experienced cyber sexual assault (revenge porn) starting in 2018. Her experience drove her to research how survivors of cyber sexual assault (CSA) are able to overcome their experiences. She led a project that interviewed survivors of CSA who felt like they had “gotten over” their experience in some way. The results of this research are in this website: what survivors say worked for them, and hopefully some things that will work for you too.

Women Engage for a Common Future

As an ecofeminist organization, we work on the following issues as a web of rights, holistically and not in silos, while putting diversity and gender equality at the focus (hover over photo for more information).

WECAN

For The Earth And All Generations –
Women Are Rising For Climate Justice
& Community-Led Solutions.

Tree Sisters

TreeSisters is more than planting trees, it’s about restoration, reconnection, and living in relationship with the Earth.

Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action

The Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) is a diverse network of women’s funds, environmental justice funds, NGOs, and women-led community based organizations (CBOs). Led by Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM), with partners Both ENDS and Mama Cash, GAGGA secures women’s rights to water, food security, and a clean, healthy environment.

Mothers of Invention

Mothers Of Invention is a podcast on feminist climate change solutions from (mostly) women around the world.

The Girl’s Index – Ruling Our eXperiences

The ROX Institute for Research and Training studies girls’ unique experiences and captures the opinions, behaviors & aspirations of thousands of U.S. girls.

Current State of STEM

Women continue to be underrepresented in the STEM workforce. Gender gaps in education pathways persist, limiting access, preparation, and career opportunities. Check out these resources for a look at the statistics of girls and women in the K-12, Higher Education, and Workforce spheres.

Girl Goals: What Has Changed for Girls?

A new report by UNICEF, UN Women, and Plan International on progress—and persistent challenges—for adolescent girls worldwide.

UN Women Data Hub

UN Women’s strategy for change on gender data is Women Count. This programme has the goal to create a radical shift in how gender statistics are used, created, shared and accessed.

Intersexional People

InterSexional People | Extraordinary Documentary

State of the World’s Girls 2025: Let me be a child, not a wife

Hear the voices of 251 girls and young women from 15 countries as they share their personal stories of child marriage and its lasting impact.

SIEMPRE VIVAS Metro

Nuestro enfoque gira alrededor del acompanamiento espacio seguro, prevencion, investigacion social y activismo.

StrongHearts Native Helpline

24/7 confidential hotline for Native Americansor Alaska Native victims of abuse.

Gender-Responsive Programming in Women’s Prisons

In this brief, we provide an overview of gender-responsive programming, share program examples and evidence-based outcomes, and suggest considerations for effectively implementing this type of programming.

Stronger Families, Safer Communities

The Women’s Justice Commission is a multi-year research, policy development, and communications initiative from the Council on Criminal Justice that documents and raises awareness of the unique challenges facing women in the justice system and builds consensus for evidence-based reforms that enhance safety, health, and justice.

Separating Families

Every mother is wholly focused on reconnecting with her children and ensuring her children’s well-being while she is incarcerated. Yet, the separation of families and the unnecessary estrangement of mothers from their children is rarely discussed outside social worker and legal service provider circles working with this population.

Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois

TJLP IS DEEPLY COMMITTED TO:
the universal right of gender self-determination
a long-term goal of abolishing the prison-industrial complex
transformative justice principles as necessary alternatives to the criminal punishment system

Creative Interventions Toolkit

Creative Interventions was founded to shift education and resources back to families and communities.

Intersectional Environmentalist

We envision a world where storytelling unites communities to foster climate action and collective resilience.

Farm Bureau women’s leadership program

The American Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership program provides women with opportunities for growth and development to sharpen their skills and strengthen their ability to inspire change.

Annie’s Project

Annie’s Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational programs designed to strengthen women’s roles in modern agricultural enterprises.

Women’s Business Development Council

More than a quarter century supporting women entrepreneurs in CT!

Eliminating discrimination against sex workers and securing their human rights

The Working Group on discrimination against women and girls has prepared the present
document on eliminating discrimination against sex workers and securing their human rights
pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 15/23 and 50/18.

Red Canary Song

Red Canary Song is a grassroots collective of Migrant Massage Workers, Sex Workers, and Allies of Asian Diaspora, base building in Flushing, NYC and organizing transnationally.

Sex Workers Project

Sex Workers Project provides free immigration legal services to people ages 18 and up who are current or former sex workers, trafficking survivors, or profiled as sex workers.

KADEM Journal of Women’s Studies

The KADEM Journal of Women’s Studies is an open-access journal published by the Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) and adheres to a double-blind peer review policy.

Boundless Futures Foundation

Boundless Futures Foundation empowers, embraces, and elevates female entrepreneurs through grants to new businesses and to likeminded nonprofits.

Giving Joy

Giving Joy is a 501(c)(3) Massachusetts-based nonprofit that strengthens and inspires women’s entrepreneurship worldwide.

Cartier Women’s Initiative

An annual international entrepreneurship program that aims to drive change by empowering women impact entrepreneurs.

What do sex workers want?

Everyone has an opinion about sex work, but what does sex worker Juno Mac think?

What 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage Means for Women of Color

‘If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair’ — Here’s a breakdown of the undeniable impact women of color had on securing women’s suffrage.

What You Need to Know About Women’s Suffrage

Here’s what you need to know about Women’s Suffrage.

A global history of women’s rights in 3 minutes

Discover the noteworthy women, grassroots movements and historic milestones that have changed the world for women and girls.

History of the Women’s Rights Movement

Making women’s history mainstream.

Deeper Looks: The Future of Women’s Rights

Trends on women’s rights worldwide.

Women in Congress

Biographical profiles of former women Members of Congress, links to information about current women Members, essays on the institutional and national events that shaped successive generations of Congresswomen, and images of each woman Member.

Women and the workplace

Over half of the world’s population is female, and as gender construct is a socially rather than physiologically determined concept, discrimination against them is common.[1] Employers and coworkers may be the source of discrimination in the workplace.

Black Women, Reproductive Justice, and Environmental Justice

Reproductive Justice includes the right to have children; to not have children; and to form and raise families in safe, healthy communities.

Highlighting the Environmental Pollutants on Black Maternal Health

Studies on environmental racism’s impacts on Black motherhood.

Broadening the Environmental Lens to Include Social and Structural Determinants of Women’s Health Disparities

Research on the determinants of women’s health.

Black Women and Environmental Justice

One focal point of Resilient Sisterhood Project’s mission is to bring to light the historical and present day effects of environmental racism in our communities.

A comparative study of women environmental defenders’ anti-violent success strategies

This research advances knowledge on the understudied topics of violence against women and their contributions to ecological movements.

Violence Against Women: Landmark Cases

Welcome to the International Law and Policy Brief (ILPB), a publication sponsored by The George Washington University Law School’s (GW Law) International Law Society.

Female Perpetrated Sexual Violence: A Survey of Survivors of Female – Perpetrated Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adult Sexual Abuse

Individuals who experience female-perpetrated sexual assault (FPSA) are underrepresented in the sexual victimization literature.

FAQs: Types of Violence Against Women and Girls

This article provides an overview of the main forms of violence against women and girls, along with other commonly used terms, that any gender equality activist should have in their vocabulary toolkit.

DAIS (Domestic Abuse Intervention Services)

Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (or DAIS) believes that a world free from violence is possible. We work to make Dane County, WI, a safer, more just, more equitable place for people who have experienced domestic violence, their children, and the people who love them.

World Female Imprisonment List

This fifth edition of ICPR’s World Female Imprisonment List shows the number of women and girls held in penal institutions in 221 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories.

“A Seat at the Table” Isn’t the Solution for Gender Equity

Lilly Singh traces the arc of her career from and offers ways to build a more inclusive society where girls are encouraged and empowered to do great things.

The Gender Divide: Tracking Women’s State Prison Growth

Information on incarcerated women.

A Heated Debate: Theoretical Perspectives of Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work

Philosophical, legal, political perspectives on sexual exploitation.

A Change of World Documentary: Poetry and the Women’s Movement

Radio documentary about the Women’s Movement’s impact on poetry.

Revealing all secrets

The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words. Our work aims to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry.

Explained – Why Women Are Paid Less

Episode about pay gap.

Great Women’s Rights Movement Footage – 1970s

Clips from women of the 1960s protesting.

State by State

Tracking laws and policies around US related to reproductive rights.

Women’s Rights – Amnesty International

On this page we look at the history of women’s rights, what women’s rights actually are, and what Amnesty is doing.

Womenslaw.org

Provides information that is relevant to all victims and survivors.

Advocating for Abolition in Health Law: A Theory and Praxis to Liberate Black Incarcerated Women

Article on the intersection between health law and incarceration of Black women.

Rethinking Incarceration

Alternative solutions to incarceration.

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Book on whether prisons are necessary.

What Is Abolition Feminism, What Is Carceral Feminism & What A World Without Prisons Could Look Like?

Article on abolition and carceral feminism.

Women’s Justice: A Preliminary Assessment of Women in the Criminal Justice System

Raising awareness of obstacles women face in the criminal justice system.

Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2024

Report providing data on female incarceration rates in the US.

Incarcerated Women and Girls

Data on female incarceration rates.

Angela Davis on the argument for police and prison abolition

A conversation with Angela Davis on prison and police abolition.

Angela Davis likens abolishing the prison system to the end of slavery

A conversation with Angela Davis on abolishing the prison system.

Tragic trend behind women prison rates

More Aussie women than ever before are finding themselves behind bars, with one reason to blame. Two women reveal shocking insights into life in prison, as well as life afterward, and the shocking trend which has seen more women incarcerated.

The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality

Talk on the history and culture of bisexuality.

How collective care can change society

Video exploring collective care as a strategy for change.

Let’s Talk About Violence Against Women and Girls

Activists speak out against violence facing women and girls all over the world.

The Psychology of Human Sexuality

Module examines fundamental aspects of sexuality.

Studying Sex: A Content Analysis of Sexuality Research in Counseling Psychology

Content analysis of sexuality research.

Relations Across Generations

A History of Interactions Between LGBTQ+ Students & UW-Milwaukee Authorities

The Evolution of Queer History at UWM

Archive of the history of queer activism in the US.

Queer History: UWM’s Archive of the Past

An archive of queer history in the US.

Gender Equality

Website about the many spheres of gender equality.

Gender perspectives in research

The article draws attention to research ethical issues relating to how a lack of sex/gender perspectives can produce biased research results, but also how the inclusion of sex/gender perspectives can be at risk of reproducing stereotypes.

Gender – Research and Data from the Pew Research Center

Publications on gender.

Feminist Theory Today

Article about feminist theory.

Feminist Theory

Article about feminist theory.

Association between sex work laws and sex workers’ health

Study on the laws involving sex work and the health of sex workers.

Symposium Introduction: Sex Workers’ Rights, Advocacy and Organizing

Symposium exploring advocacy and rights surrounding sex work.

Beyond the Stereotypes: A Deep Dive into Sex Work

Insight into the experiences of sex workers.

Women’s Pornography Use Patterns and Sexuality Education in US Public Schools

This study investigated the relationship between sexuality education in U.S. public schools and women’s pornography use.

Women in Science: History, Achievements, & Facts

Women in science throughout history.

Shout Out for Women in Science

Information on impactful careers of women in science.

Changing the Curve: Women in Computing

Exploring the history and influence of women in computing and reviews the state of the gap between women and men in computing today.

Where are the Women? A Detailed History of Women in Computer Science and How it Impacts the Modern Day Industry

History of computer science focusing on women and the impacts it has today.

Women in Maths

Who is a mathematician? From women making complicated calculations as ‘computers’ to those managing household accounts, the stories of women in maths are countless but mostly obscured.

20 Historic Female Engineers Who Shaped Our World

20 historic female engineers whose groundbreaking work has helped to shape our world, but who are often not given the recognition they deserve

Women In Technology

Our mission is to support and empower women at every stage of their journey in tech, from the classroom to the boardroom. Through educational programming, formal mentoring programs, and informal networking, WIT members find new ways to connect, lead, and succeed.