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Diversity World Gender
Page
A spin-off site with numerous gender-focused links.
Chilly Climate - Addressing the Climate for Women in
Academia
"’Ķdesigned to stimulate important new discussions about the climate we
create in scientific institutions across America’Ķ [AWIS] provides an excellent
resource for scientists and institutions who are trying to improve their own
environments for women scientists.
Clearly, this is one type of 'climate warming' to be encouraged, rather
than feared!"
The Canadian Association for the
Advancement of Women in Sports
A web site for active girls and young women by Nike Canada and the Canadian
Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity
proMOTION plus
The BC organization for girls and women in physical activity and sport.
World Converence on
Women and Sport Toolkit
Investigates the specific question of gender equity in math reform as well as
the larger equity issues that these reforms pose for students from various
academic, socio-economic, and linguistic backgrounds
Weaving Gender Equity into Math
Reform
Investigates the specific question of gender equity in math reform as well as
the larger equity issues that these reforms pose for students from various
academic, socio-economic, and linguistic backgrounds.
Asia Pacific Gender Equality Network
Women in Global Science and Technology
The main theme of this organization is empowering women through technology. The
focus is global and there is an international bibliography (dated 1997, but
still useful) on issues concerning gender equity in technology.
About.com's Women's Basketball
Amateurs, camps, coaches, coaching/teaching, recruiting, fan pages, gender
equity, history, international, multimedia, teams, conferences, news sources,
players, pro leagues, schedules/standings, scores and stats, vendors.
Jane Curry
An author, storyteller, performer, and recovering academic with a knack for
provoking both thought and laughter with her one-woman shows. Since 1983, she
has traveled with her various personae to forty-six states, Israel and Japan
and is available for single-show events, multiple-show tours, and residencies.
Cafe Progressive
Progressive community emphasizing education, multiculturalism, equity and
social justice activism featuring; forums; guest editorials on race, gender,
class, economics, education, politics, institutions, environmentalism and
spirituality; music; books; chat; surveys; bulletin board; mailing list; and an
annotated Progressive Resource Directory.
The Hypatia Institute
Dedicated to gender equity in physics, astronomy, and the sciences in general;
with resources for students, teachers, and scientists.
Indiana American Association of
University Women
Local, state, regional and national information about AAUW, education for women
and girls, as well as gender equity issues is included.
Cultural Environment Movement
International coalition of over 250 organizations and 6300 individuals united
in working for gender equity and general diversity in mass media employment,
ownership and representation.
Gender Equity in Sports
Title IX resource, providing an overview of the law and a subject index to
recent developments and lawsuits, with inks to statistics and downloadable
documents. From the University of Iowa.
WomensNet
Network of activist organizations concerned with such issues as social equity,
gender bias, racism, abortion, population control, and violence against women.
Includes reports on current crises and links to member groups.
African Gender Institute
Building intellectual capacity and establishing an African resource dedicated
to strengthening and advancing the work of intellectuals, researchers,
policy-makers and practitioners committed to the attainment of gender equity.
Title IX: Schiller Law Firm
Mandates gender equity in high school and junior high athletics. Read about
recent enforcement in public schools. Schiller Law Firm, with Professor Ray
Yasser, has filed numerous lawsuits.
Women Opposed to Male
Bashing (WOMB)
A pro-gender-equity, anti-sexist site.
Gender
Equity in Islam
Contains a few informative paragraphs about polygamy in Islam.
The National Organization for Men
Working for gender equity to protect men's rights to prevent the further
erosion of men's status
Massachusetts Vocational Gender
Equity Centers
Seeking to eliminate sex bias and sex stereotyping in employment and education.
Gender Equity at Stanford University
This site is about the discrimination and retaliation Colleen Crangle
experienced at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the battle she
waged against it. It also covers the Labor Department's investigation of
gender bias at Stanford.
Gender Equity
Archives
Collection at Central Connecticut State University's Elihu Burrit Library.
Washington Salary
Surveys
Average Salaries for Faculty on 9/10 Month Contracts According to Gender, by
Institutional Type and Control, and Rank for each year.
W.A.G.E.-We Advocate Gender Equity
To end gender bias and achieve gender equity in the education, hiring, retention,
promotion and compensation of women in the academic community within the
University of California and other academic institutions.
The American Association of University
Professors home page.
Founded in 1915, AAUP defends academic freedom and tenure, advocates collegial
governance, and develops policies ensuring due process.
Myra Sadker Advocates for Gender Equity
Myra Sadker Advocates is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting equity
in and beyond schools. By working to eliminate gender bias, the advocacy
enhances the academic, psychological, economic, and physical potential of
America's Children. The advocates support research. training and special
programs for teachers, parents, children and all those work and interest touch
the lives of children.
CEDAW Text:
This is the text of the December 18th 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women. The Convention was the culmination
of more than thirty years of work by the United Nations Commission on the
Status of Women, a body established in 1946 to monitor the situation of women
and promote women's rights.
The National
Committee on Pay Equality
fact sheet for women's wage gap by education. Links to fact sheets on
wage gap by gender, wage gap changes, and wage gap by race. All figures
through 1998 from the US Census Bureau.
Women in Higher Education
This site is a "national monthly practitioner's news journal to enlighten,
encourage, empower, and enrage."
Women and Leadership Alliance
Today, the Women & Leadership Alliance (WLA) is an informal organization of
women sharing information/experiences and developing leadership skills.
United States Department of Education Gender Equity Program The purpose of the Equity Task Force is to advise the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary on all matters related to ensuring that equity is an integral part of all Departmental programs and management practices and decisions.
The Center for Gender Equity
Also has links to other interesting sites.
Gender Equity in
Education: Additional Resource
These resources are suggested to improve access for girls and women to
education.
Virginia Now Pay Equity
The National Organization for Women is the author of this site.
Report Questions Methodology and Conclusions of MIT Gender-Discrimination Study By SCOTT SMALLWOOD. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has acted hastily to redress gender discrimination that may not have even existed, according to a report published this month by a nonprofit women's group that looks critically at claims of bias. 05-29-03
Chronicle of
Higher Education Article on MIT report on gender equity April 2, 1999
MIT Acknowledges Bias Against Female Faculty Members. Unusually candid report
responds to complaints by women on salaries, office size, committee
assignments, and awards. By D.W. MILLER and ROBIN WILSON
A Study of the
Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT Printable Version (pdf format)
How a Committee on Women Faculty came to be established by the Dean of the
School of Science, what the Committee and the Dean learned and accomplished,
and recommendations for the future.
Also see the special issue of the MIT newsletter, March 1999 In it President Charles M. Vest states: "I commend this study of Women Faculty in Science to all of my faculty colleagues. Please read it, contemplate its messages and information, and act upon it personally and collectively."
Gender
Equity in Teacher Preparation: Findings of the Survey of California Teacher
Preparation Programs
This analysis was done on current teacher preparation programs in California.
Its purpose is to inform policy makers and to recommend changes to policy.
HERDSA
Case Study
Vicki Caulfield is the author of this site.
Gender Equity Issues: Articles
Women's
sites striking deals
A year ago, Net observers were worried about gender equity online. These days,
not only is it clear that women are online and here to stay, but companies are
daily cutting deals trying to reach what is quickly becoming one of the most
important vertical markets on the Net.
High court lets gender equity rulings stand
Wanted:
Female Faculty
Less that a fifth of Stanford's professors are women. Everyone agrees that is a
problem. But how far should the University go to fix it?
Women professors
file discrimination suit against UW
Thursday, April 22, 1999. Two women dentistry professors at the University of
Washington file what they hope will become a class-action discrimination
lawsuit against the university.
Gender Gap?
What Gender Gap?
According to Web audience measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings, 49.5 percent of
all Internet users in the United States are women.
Independent Women's Forum
For three decades, women have been moving steadily upward in the American work
force. But according to many womens rights advocates, considerable bias against
women remains.
How Gender
Audits Transform Organizations
Influences on Gender-Role Attitudes
during the Translation to Adulthood
This article uses longitudinal data for a nationally representative sample of
U.S. youth to study intergenerational and intragenerational influences on the
gender-role attitudes of young women and men. Site requires a
subscription.
The Effect of Occupational Sex
Composition on the Gender Gap in Workplace Authority
This article compares women and men's attainment of workplace authority in
female-dominated, mixed, and male-dominated occupations. Site requires a
subscription.
European Institute
of Women's Health Report
Gender equity and public health in Europe discussion document. September
2000.
Building a Gender-Equitable Organisation
Gender Equity in Islam
Jamal Badawi's paper that discusses the roles of women and men from the
perspective of gender complimentarily.
Gender
Analysis: Alternative Paradigms:
The principal conceptual paradigms that have framed gender analysis over the
past decade include: the Gender Roles Framework (GRF);
the University College-London Department of Planning Unit (DPU) Framework ('triple roles model'); the Social
Relations Framework developed by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Sussex; and the approaches of feminist economics, including both neo-classical and
critical feminist economics.
Gender Equity in Australia
University Staffing
This document is an unedited version of Gender Equity in Australian University
Staffing, Evaluations and Investigations Program Monograph 97/18... (click
here for .pdf version)
The
Glass Ceiling Environmental Scan
Updated 4/02/0 by Khalil Islam’ÄîZwart
Based on work of Elaine Cullen , Jonas Hiner akjonas@yahoo.com and the other
students who have worked on the site
Link corrected James Beebe 05-29-02