Professional Organizations & Agencies

AAUP/ Women's Committee
Get the most recent national faculty salary survey report, overview of court cases affecting women, issues in affirmative action and more.
http://www.aaup.org/Issues/WomeninHE/513wihe.htm

Association for Women in Development (AWID)
International issues, advocacy, women's rights and economic change, and conferences on women.
http://www.awid.org

The Commonwealth Fund
Health issues & the common good.
http://www.cmwf.org/

Economic Policy Institute
The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.
http://www.epinet.org/

Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Professional organization promoting feminist ethical perspectives on philosophy, moral and political life and public policy.
http://www.afeast.org

Feminist Majority Foundation
Website with topics on activism, books, careers, legislation, newswire stories, sports, and more.
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=6696

Feminista
An online journal of feminist construction on art, literature, philosophy, social commentary, humor, etc.
http://www.feminista.com/v3n4/

Gender Research in Music Education (GRIME)
The mission "is to provide leadership, advocacy, professional contacts, and a strong research agenda for gender researchers in music education." The new online journal, GEMS, will be in production soon.
http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~grime/index.html

Institute for Women's Policy Research
The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families. IWPR focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, the economic and social aspects of health care and domestic violence, and women's civic and political participation.
http://www.iwpr.org/

Institute for Women and Technology National Initiative for Women in Higher Education
The National Initiative for Women in Higher Education (NIWHE) is a unique alliance promoting a multicultural women-led agenda for the sustained transformation of higher education for the twenty-first century. NIWHE includes leaders and activists from campuses, research centers, government and non-governmental organizations, and the corporate sector. NIWHE advances research, analysis, and collective action to achieve gender equity and engage women's leadership to create diverse, democratic educational institutions.
http://www.campuswomenlead.org/

International Alliance for Women in Music
Promotes women composers, players, and academics of (mostly) classical music through a scholarly journal, annual congresses,  a searchable website, a discussion list, and annual protests against the all-male, all-white Vienna Philharmonic.
http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/home.html

National Initiative for Women in Higher Education, American Colleges & Universities
AAC&U has provided national leadership on issues of women in higher education through its Program on the Status and Education of Women (PSEW). PSEW is one of only two women's offices sponsored by a higher education association. PSEW conducts projects and publishes on such priorities as curriculum and campus climate, women's leadership, and new research on women and gender. It has published a series of papers on women of color in postsecondary education and has sponsored a National Science Foundation supported initiative on Women and Scientific Literacy. PSEW is also the coordinating office of the National Initiative for Women in Higher Education, a grassroots network of people and organizations committed to improving campus climates and the status of women in higher education.
http://www.aacu-edu.org/issues/women.cfm

National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women
The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) serves as a focal point for women's health research at the NIH. The goal is to strengthen, develop, and increase research into diseases, disorders, and conditions that affect women, determine gaps in knowledge about such conditions and diseases, and establish a research agenda for NIH for the future directions in women's health research.
http://www4.od.nih.gov/orwh/

National Women’s Studies Association
Information on meetings, programs, jobs, and more
http://www.nwsa.org/

Peer Power
An educational outreach program Sponsored by the Ohio State University Women¹s Studies department. MA students make presentations to middle and high school students on topics such as: learning gender, media images, homophobia, body image, and gender equity and work. The program's slogan is making the familiar strange.
www.womens-studies.ohio-state.edu/peerpower/Front.htm

Psychology of Women homepage
Our purpose is to promote feminist scholarship and practice, and to advocate action toward public policies that advance equality and social justice. We are a voice of feminist issues within organized psychology.
http://www.apa.org/divisions/div35/

Research on Women and Education
This special interest group for AERA (American Educational Research Association) has its own Web site. This is a strong, vibrant group in ed research that focuses on women and girls.
http://www.rwesig.net/

Sociologists for Women in Society
An organization for sociologists working to improve the status of women in sociology and in society as a whole.
http://newmedia.colorado.edu/~socwomen/

United Nations Div. For Advancement of Women
International issues and advocacy for women. Learn about CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, and check the calendar for international meetings, programs, and news.
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/

Womanist Theory and Research
Published by the Womanist Studies Consortium at The University of Georgia, Womanist Theory and Research is a biannual, peer-edited, interdisciplinary,  intercultural, international journal on women of color.
http://www.uga.edu/womanist/

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