Gender Studies: Women's Issues

An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers and journals from a variety of libraries in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. Most from the second half of the twentieth century.

Explores the impact of women on the economic life of the United States from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Great Depression.

The mission of this nicely searchable collection is “to acquire and preserve published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women throughout history.” Use this site to access manifestos, essays and speeches from the 1960s and 1970s, which comprise the collection

Speeches, essays and manifestos from the 1960s and 19070s.

A significant part of the Smithsonian’s Women’s History Initiative, this digital first project documents the importance of women throughout the history of this country, in a broad spectrum of disciplines, who helped to define the United States.

Women who campaigned for elected public office before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in August, 1920.

"The leading think tank in the United States applying quantitative and qualitative analysis of public policy through a gendered lens.”

Federal and agency initiatives serving a variety of populations with survey reports and behavioral health resources.

Advocates and members of the legal profession who strive to fight for gender justice in the courts, in public policy and in society.

Data on various aspects of women’s life are gathered for comparison by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Gateway to the Library of Congress resources for the study of women’s history and culture in the United States.

Over 35 million photos free for embedded use, but not downloading. Searchable by a variety of terms.

Rally songs and works by both well-established composers ad ordinary citizens. Contains music both in favor of and against the suffragist movement between 1838 and 1923.