Professional Resources

• This area is covered by the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Sex and Gender
  • Sexualities
     
• Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) 
  Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) is an international organization of social scientists—students, faculty, practitioners, and researchers—working together to improve the position of women within sociology and within society in general.
   
• Gender & Society 
  Consistently ranked as a top journal in both Women's Studies and Sociology by the Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports, Gender & Society focuses on the social and structural study of gender as a basic principle of the social order and as a primary social category.  Emphasizing theory and research from micro- and macrostructual perspectives, Gender & Society features original research, reviews, international perspectives, and book reviews from diverse social science disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, political science, sociology and social psychology. [self-characterization].
   
• Signs 
  Another prominent journal for research on gender is Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

Data Resources

• The Institute for Women’s Policy Research 
  The Institute for Women’s Policy Research includes a variety of topics such as work, health, poverty, and welfare. The institute has great publications on women, employment, earnings, and economic change. You can get added to an e-mail list that announces press releases and Capitol Hill briefings.
   
• The United States Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau 
  The United States Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau has its own Web site. 
   
• American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations 
  The labor union organization American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) tracks issues related to gender and pay-equity in the workplace.
   
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 
  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission maintains a Web site on sexual harassment.
   
• U.S. Department of Justice Violence Against Women 
  The U.S. Department of Justice Violence Against Women Office Web site provides information about this issue.

Other Resources

• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 
  The mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is to build the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. We do this by training activists, equipping state and local organizations with the skills needed to organize broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, and building the organizational capacity of our movement. Our Policy Institute, the movement’s premier think tank, provides research and policy analysis to support the struggle for complete equality and to counter right-wing lies. As part of a broader social justice movement, we work to create a nation that respects the diversity of human expression and identity and creates opportunity for all [self-characterization].
   
• Gender and Society 
  Michael Kearl’s Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace: Gender and Society.
   
• Humanities-oriented 
  Humanities-oriented (though not exclusively humanities-oriented) women’s studies, gender studies, and queer theory sources are available from The Voice of the Shuttle.
   
• Professional Women of Color, Inc 
  Professional Women of Color, Inc is an organization focused on facilitating social and professional connections and resource sharing between women of color.
   
• Feminists for Life 
  For an alternative perspective on gender and reproductive rights—”Pro Woman, Pro Life”—see Feminists for Life.
   
• Screening Gender 
  Screening Gender is a training tool kit for innovation in program production to promote new approaches to the portrayal of women and men in television.
   
• The American Association of University Women 
  The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has dedicated more than 120 years to the advancement of education. To this day, AAUW continues to break through barriers to improve educational opportunities for women and girls. Learn how AAUW makes a difference through research, publications, leadership programs, and as one of the world’s largest sources of funding to ensure that women and girls have access to higher education and the opportunity to achieve excellence in professions of their choice.
   
• Gender Justice
  Gender Justice, an action group, describes its mission as follows: “Gender Justice addresses the causes and consequences of gender inequality, both locally and nationally. We pursue this mission through three interconnected program areas:
  • impact litigation
  • policy work
  • public education and training
     
• In each program area, we seek to highlight the central role of cognitive bias - the subtle but pervasive ways that stereotypes affect our perceptions, decision, and preferences - as a cause of inequality. Likewise, in each program area, we seek to counteract the most harmful consequences of inequality, by working to dismantle the gender-based barriers that keep people from full participation in our economy and our society. While we believe gender inequality is detrimental for everyone, we focus particularly on the needs of those individuals - such as low-income and immigrant workers - who have traditionally had difficulty accessing justice.”