WS 2050    Spring 2003
Weeks 1-2    Women of the World

Introductions/video: Women of the 3rd World, 1986/library project

Response Paper topic #1: Report on conditions for women in certain parts of the world; topic #2: Report on conditions for women in the U.S. Due: January 21 and 23

January 16: Meet in Library 138 with librarian Kathy Payne.

Internet Resources

            Kathy Payne has put together for this class a web page of resources: http://library.weber.edu/cm/ws/ws2050.asp

Women In the World

   The Women's International Center (San Diego, CA) has a number of links: http://www.wic.org/

    The Internal Center for Research on Women (Washington, D.C.)issues a number of studies: http://www.icrw.org

   WINGS is an international women's news gathering service: http://www.wings.org/

   The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/

   The United Nations Statistics Division includes reports on women 2000: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/ww2000/tables.htm

   From the United Nations Library is a bibliography on women which includes on-line texts: http://www.unog.ch/frames/library/pub/bibliography/women.htm

   The Human Rights Watch publishes information about the legal status of women in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world: http://www.hrw.org/women/status.html

   Amnesty International reports information about Women's Human Rights: http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/

    Women's Statistics Watch: http://womensstatisticswatch.bei.t-online.de/

Women in the United States

   The Institute for Women's Policy Research issues reports about women in the U.S.: http://www.iwpr.org/

    AmeriStat of the Population Reference Bureau is a good source of comparative data by state and region: http://www.ameristat.org/

   The U.S. Census Bureau issues Women's Statistics News Releases: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/women.html

    Violence Against Women published statistics: http://www.vday.org/ie/index2.cfm?ArticleID=522

   The Family and Medical Leave Act, Women's Statistics, lists several resources for statistics on women: http://www.familyleavesurvey.homestead.com/FMLAWomenStats.html

    The Agency for Healthcare and Quality provides reports on women's health: http://www.ahcpr.gov/research/womenix.htm

   The National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/healthywomen.htm

   The National Council for Research on Women: http://www.ncrw.org/

   The Center for American Women and Politics is at Rutgers University: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/Facts.html