Resource Guide for Women, Politics and Policy

Other Resource Lists

• Women's Studies Resources: This site describes itself : The University of Maryland women's studies web site, begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues.
• Feminist Activist Resources on the Net: This site describes itself: ' This guide is particularly oriented toward connecting Feminists who are Activists to resources on the Internet which could be of use. I have tried, where available, to connect people to other indexes about a particular topic of feminism, rather than to the resources themselves. '
• Women of Color Web This site describes its mission: " The Women of Color Web is dedicated to providing access to writings by and about women of color in the U.S. We focus specifically on issues related to feminisms, sexualities, and reproductive health and rights, although we envision adding new sections as interests arise. The site also provides links to organizations, discussion lists, and academic tools concerned specifically with women of color."

Organizations

• APSA Women and Politics Research Section Useful links page at this site.
• The National Organization for Women
• League of Women Voters
• The Feminist Majority Foundation (This site also has excellent links to, inter alia, international women's issues, organizations, conferences and the like; internship programs; women's health sites; women and politics; women's studies programs, and lots more.
• Emily's List is a political network for pro-choice Democratic women candidates that raises early money to make women credible contenders.  EMILY stands for "Early Money Is Like Yeast" (we help the "dough" rise). But EMILY represents more...
• National Abortion and Reproductive Rights League
• Women Leaders Online Women Organizing for Change

Centers

• Center for the American Woman and Politics The site describes itself: The Center for the American Woman and Politics (CAWP) is a university-based research, educationand public service center. Its mission is to promote greater understanding and knowledge about women's relationship to politics and government and to enhance women's influence and leadership in public life. CAWP is a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers.
• Institute for Women's Policy Research. The Institute describes itself: The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is an independent, non-profit, scientific research organization incorporated in the District of Columbia, established in 1987 to rectify the limited availability of policy relevant research on women's lives and to inform and stimulate debate on issues of critical importance for women.

Bibliographies and Bibliographic Resources

• Women in Politics Bibliographic Database From The Scout Report for Social Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2000. The Scout Report: "This bibliographic database currently holds 650 titles of recent works concerned with women in politics. A new addition to the Inter-Parliamentary Union's "Democracy through Partnership between Men and Women in Politics" site, "it provides bibliographic references to books, reports and journal articles on all aspects of women's participation in political life worldwide." The search mechanism allows users to specify type of document, geographic region, publishing organization, subject matter, author, title of periodical, and year of publication. Alternatively, there is also a subject keyword search. For more information about the Inter-Parliamentary Union Website, see the December 12, 1997 _Scout Report_. [DC] "

Policy Issues

• Abortion Law Homepage A privately constructed page to provide links tro primary documents and other information about abortion law with bo political agenda.
• Gendercide Watch

Journals

• Womenspace: women on the internet.
• Women and Politics. Includes abstracts from the journal.

International

• The Inter-Parliamentary Union Democracy through Partnership between Men and Women in Politics has the nibliographic database listed above, a section on women's suffrage, women in parliaments and many other resources.