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GWS Related Websites
Descriptions are either quoted or paraphrased from the source web page.
Graduate Programs In GWS
Maintained by the Study of Women and Gender Program at Smith College, this list is updated several times a year. Programs are listed by highest terminal degree available.
Center for Women and Information Technology
Offers information, news, resources, and initiatives that address women's use of information technology [IT] and their under-representation in the IT workforce.
Feminist Academic Press Column
Offers very brief reviews of recently published books related to Women's Studies, women's issues, Lesbian/Queer Studies, and Gender Studies.
The Second Wave and Beyond
Resources include a discussion forum, chronologies, oral histories, images, reviews, bibliographies, links to related sites, and teaching and research resources.
Women's Research and Education Institute
Helps shape the public policy debate on issues affecting women in the family, workplace and public arenas.
Women's Studies Database
An informational collective through the University of Maryland serving people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues.
American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project
Legal advocacy on the issues of employment, violence against women, criminal justice and education.
Chicago National Organization for Women
Activism, education and advocacy for women's equality.
Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, Hampshire College
Training and education for reproductive rights activists and organizers.
Ecofeminism Webring
Links to other pages related to ecofeminism and other progressive issues.
Emily's List
Supports candidacies of pro-choice Democratic women running for public office and encourages women's voter participation.
Feminist Majority Foundation
Dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence.
FeministCampus.org
Sponsored by the Feminist Majority to provide tools and resources students need to become involved in pro-choice activism on campus.
Global Fund for Women
Advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.
Human Rights Campaign
Largest GLBT civil rights organization in the United States.
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Working to promote equality and safety for all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation or expression, gender identity or expression, and/or HIV status.
Lesbian.org
Promoting lesbian visibility on the internet.
Legal Momentum: Advancing Women's Rights
Legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the rights of women and girls.
MS Foundation
National, multi-issue women's fund that directs resources of all kinds to cutting-edge projects that nurture girls' leadership skills, protect the health and safety of women, and provide low-income women with the tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
National Organization for Women
Organization of feminist activists.
Thirdwave Foundation
Supports groups and individuals working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice through grants and training.
Women's Environmental and Development Organization
Mobilizing women to prevent climate change.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Membership organization working for global peace, freedom and justice.
Women's Sports Foundation
Charitable educational organization dedicated to advancing the lives of girls and women through sports and physical activity.
About-Face
Focuses on exposing negative media images of GLBT people and gendered media stereotypes.
Bitch Magazine
Feminist media organization and publisher of Bitch Magazine.
Bust Magazine
Feminist media organization and publisher of Bust Magazine.
Feminist Press
Nonprofit literary and educational publisher dedicated to publishing work by and about women.
Guerilla Girls
Radical feminist art collective promoting women and people of color in the arts.
MS. Magazine
Magazine dedicated to exploring issues relating to women's status, women's rights, and women's points of view.
News We Can Use
Focuses on news, issues, books, and Web sites of interest to women – most of which aren't heavily publicized in the mainstream media.
Women Make Movies
Multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women.
Women's E-news
Professional news service providing national and global news about issues of importance to women.
Women's Media Center
Focus on women's representations in the media.
AIDS Action
Advocate on a national level for people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS and the organizations that serve them.
Avert AIDS
International HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, working to AVERT HIV and AIDS worldwide.
Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
Alliance of civil society groups, networks of women living with HIV, and United Nations agencies, supported by activists, political leaders, and celebrities.
International Women's Health Coalition
Focused on raising awareness about discrimination, sexual coercion, and violence, as well as making health information and services are accessible to all.
Ms. Foundation for Women and AIDS
Directs resources of all kinds to cutting-edge projects that nurture girls' leadership skills, protect the health and safety of women, and provide low-income women with the tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
National Asian Women's Health Organization
National non-profit health organization with a mission to achieve health equity for Asian women and families.
National Black Women's Health Project
Works at the national and local levels, to bring the perspectives and often missing voices of African American women to the ongoing health policy debates.
National Women's Health Network
Membership-based organization supported by 8,000 individuals and organizations nationwide, to give women a greater voice within the healthcare system.
Society for Women's Health Research
Advocates increased funding for research on women's health; encourages the study of sex differences that may affect the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease; promotes the inclusion of women in medical research studies; and informs women, providers, policy makers and media about contemporary women's health issues.
Women and HIV/AIDS
Important health information about the gendered impact of HIV/AIDS.
Women's Health Interactive
Online web-forum dedicated to individual interaction between women and their health.
Alan Guttmacher Institute
Leading authority on sexual/reproductive health & rights in the United States and worldwide.
Emergency Contraception
Operated by the Office of Population Research at Princeton University and by the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, to increase women's knowledge about and timely access to emergency contraception and other reproductive health choices, both in the United States and abroad.
National Abortion Federation
The mission of the National Abortion Federation is to ensure safe, legal, and accessible abortion care to promote health and justice for women.
National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Organization
Membership organization representing the nation's dedicated family planning providers - nurses, nurse practitioners, administrators and other key health care providers.
Planned Parenthood
The nation's leading women's health care provider, educator, and advocate, serving women, men, teens, and families.
Activists for Choice
Provide resources and information for voters who want to support pro-choice legislation and elect pro-choice legislators.
Center for Reproductive Rights
Uses the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill.
MTV Fight For Your Rights
Community where you, your friends, and your favorite celebrities can get informed, get heard and take action on the issues that matter most.
Planned Parenthood Chicago Area
Offering online health services, opening express clinics in shopping malls, and using mobile clinics to reach underserved communities in the Chicagoland area.
Go Ask Alice
The health question and answer Internet resource produced by the Alice! Health Promotion Program at Columbia University
Just Say Yes: The Coalition for Positive Sexuality
Provides teens with candid sex education materials online.
Scarleteen: Sex Education for the Real World
Resource for sex information, geared towards teens.
Sex, etc.
National magazine and Web site on sexual health that is written by teens, for teens.
Teenwire (from Planned Parenthood)
Provides honest and nonjudgmental information about sexuality in understandable language, with aims to reduce risks of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
Blackgirl International
Internet resource for black women. Offers links to other sites in a dozen categories, including the arts, heritage, issues, and organizations.
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
NAPAWF's mission is to build a movement to advance social justice and human rights for APA women and girls.
Women of Color Resource Center
The WCRC promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well being of women and girls of color in the United States. WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women of color across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age.
Amnesty International - Women's Human Rights
Undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
Works to impact the development of law and policy to protect women fleeing gender-based violence.
Center for Women's Research - Sri Lanka
Non-governmental, non-profit organization for academics, researchers, and activists involved in research and action-oriented programs relating to women.
Equality Now
Documents violence and discrimination against women and mobilizes international action to support their efforts to stop these human rights abuses.
Global Fund for Women
Works to advance women's human rights by making grants to women's groups that work to gain freedom from poverty, violence and discrimination.
International Center for Research on Women
Seeks to promote a world free of poverty in which women and men, girls and boys have equal opportunities to achieve their potential and realize their rights.
Madre: An International Women's Human Rights Organization
Works with women affected by human rights violations to help them win justice and ultimately change the conditions that give rise to human rights abuses.
Network of East West Women
International communication and resource network supporting dialogue, informational exchange, and activism among those concerned about the status of women in Central and Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States, and the Russian Federation.
Sakhi for South Asian Women
Community-based organization in the New York metropolitan area committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin.
Sisterhood is Global Institute
Organization pledged to visionary yet pragmatic action in support of women's rights, freedoms, and power.
South Asian Women's Net
Forums for South Asian and any other women interested in issues relevant to South Asian women.
Office of International Women's Issues
Through the US State Department.
Women for Women International
Mobilizes women to change their lives by bringing a holistic approach to addressing the unique needs of women in conflict and post-conflict environments.
Women Ink
Women's book collective committed to locating and promoting publications from independent publishers and information producing groups in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, they currently carry over 200 academic and practical books in several categories, including Gender and Development, Women, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Women's Rights, Women, Culture and Religion, Training, Health, Sexuality and Reproductive Rights, Women Organizing and Advocacy, Women and Islam, Women, Economics and Globalization and Women and Media.
Women's International Center
Celebrates the accomplishments and positive and lasting contributions of women so that others may know, understand, appreciate, and hopefully incorporate the gifts women have given to improve the world.
Women's International News Gathering Service
All-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
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