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Associations & Organizations
Below you will find examples of organizations and associations working in a number of fields related to gender and women's studies. Many of these websites provide resources like articles, toolkits, educational programs, information on events, as well as offering a sense of work being done in regards to women's issues on a larger scale.
Education & Research
- American Association of University Women
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"Advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research." - National Women's Studies Association
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"NWSA is a professional organization dedicated to leading the field of women's studies and gender studies, as well as its teaching, learning, research, and service wherever they be found." - Wellesley Centers for Women
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"The largest social science organization in the U.S. dedicated to gender research."
Domestic Violence
- Say No Unite
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Launched in 2008, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s UNITE to End Violence against Women campaign is a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls around the world. - National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)
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NNEDV works closely with its members to understand the ongoing and emerging needs of domestic violence victims and advocacy programs. A resource library includes toolkits, information on tech safety and privacy, transitional housing and more. - ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence
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The mission of this legal wing of the American Bar Association is "to increase access to justice for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking by mobilizing the legal profession." - Domestic Violence Resource Center
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“The Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County offers safety, support, advocacy, proactive community education and a network of services to all persons who are victims of domestic violence.”
Women in the Workforce
- 9to5"9to5 is fighting for economic justice for those most harmed by centuries of racism and sexism: women and nonbinary people of color." Searchable resources include fact sheets and reports on subjects like worker justice and community sustainability.
- Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & OrganizingWIEGO is a global action-research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor in the informal economy, especially women.
Women in the Military
- Service Women's Action NetworkThe Service Women's Action Network seeks to "transform military culture by securing equal opportunity and freedom to serve without discrimination, harassment or assault; and to reform veterans’ services to ensure high quality health care and benefits for women veterans and their families."
- U.S. Department Center for Women VeteransThe Center for Women Veterans serves as an advocate for a cultural transformation in recognizing the service and contributions of women Veterans and women in the military, and in raising awareness of the responsibility to treat women Veterans with dignity and respect.
- Academy WomenAcademy Women "provides supplemental sources of education, leadership development opportunities, and resources to achieve better personal and professional balance for military women and women veterans."
Women in Computer Science
- National Center for Women & Information Technology"The National Center for Women & Information Technology is a non-profit community of more than 300 prominent corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profits working to increase women's participation in technology and computing."
- The Ada Project (TAP)"TAP serves primarily as a collection of links to other online resources, rather than as an archive. TAP includes information on conferences, projects, disucssion groups and organizations, fellowships and grants, notable women in Computer Science, and other electronically accessible sites."
- The Center for Women in Technology (CWIT)Established at the University of Maryland Baltimore, the vision of the Center for Women In Technology (CWIT) is to "increase the representation of women in the creation of technology in the engineering and information technology fields."
Economics
- Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)As a subcommittee of the American Economics Association, the CSWEP publishes a newsletter, facilitates mentoring workshops, and publishes annual reports "on the status of women in the economics profession".
- International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)IAFFE goals include collaborative efforts to educate "economists, policy makers, and the general public on feminist points of view on economic matters", as well as expanding opportunities for women, and "encouraging inclusion of feminist perspectives in the economics classroom".
- Association for the Advancement of African Women Economists (AAAWE)The AAAWE "creates opportunities for networking and mentoring, assists members to obtain grants, fellowships and internships, and facilitates the creation and the sharing of knowledge among members."
Politics
- Rutgers Center for American Women & Politics (CAWP)A "source of scholarly research and current data about American women’s political participation". CAWP offers intersectional education and outreach programs.
- Emily's ListEmily’s List is dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women to office. This organization seeks to help elect more women into political positions to create progressive change that recognizes women's pro-choice rights.
- Women & Politics InstituteThe Women & Politics Institute provides "practical and academic training" to facilitate the involvement of women in the political process.