WGS 100: Web Resources

A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of women's history in the United States.

Formerly known as the National Women's History Project, the National Women’s History Alliance is an organization committed to the goals of education, empowerment, equality, and inclusion.

Offered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provides helpful links to issues related to women's health.

Information about the Women's Bureau, its publications and activities as well as labor related data pertaining to women.

NOW homepage includes general information about the organization, its structure, history, and activities, along with issues of the National NOW Times. Lots of information on current political and social issues affecting women.

The National Center for Transgender Equality strives for increasing an understanding and acceptance of transgender people as well as for replacing disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.

The National Women's Studies Association promotes production and dissemination of knowledge about women and gender through teaching, learning, research and service in academic and other settings.

Sponsored by the Feminist Majority organization. Focuses on political awareness. Includes current political activities, news briefs, bibliographies, and lists of recent publications, directories, and much more.

Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images including 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets as well as 1,200 photographs.

Guide with links to a variety of online gender studies resources including essays, bibliographies, book reviews, directories and magazines. Includes section on women's studies and feminist theory.

A federal site providing teaching resources on a variety of subjects.

For over 30 years, the Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”) have identified and honored the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.