• Women World Leaders 1945-2005  many small developed, developing and Third World countries have been pioneers in the issue. This is a well referenced series of lists of such women leaders.
• Women in the developing world Article from wateraid highlighting the difficulties presented to women in particular of lack of water

Middle East/Asia

• Indian Genders and Sexualities Documents on the historical development from the Internet Indian History Sourcebook
• iranianchildren.org  Iranian Children - Shirin Ebadi’s organisation to help street children
• burmacampaign Burma Campaign - Campaign for Human Rights in Burma
• wapha Afghanistan Women’s Rights

Latin America

• Women's Rights in Latin America Excellent  links to many, many valuable sites: by region, by country. From University of Texas at Austin
• The Element of Cross-Class Participation in Peruvian and Brazilian Women's Movements during Times of Political Change Women in Peru, whose political organizations usually consisted of one class, made little impact on their new government's policies. In contrast, Brazilian women who managed to maintain multi-class organizations were able to influence their government. By Erica Baca, University of Utah.  §
• Feminism in Argentina by Marilyn Mercer 1998  Interesting article on emergence of women in a developing country, well supported by background notes to the non specialist on Argentina
• Weavers Tell Their Stories  looks at the difficulties facing Guatamalan women in carrying on traditional weaving work. Part of the Classroom lesson series from womeninworldhistory. Concise but with good witness support

Native American Women  

• Native American Women on the WWW a very full listing from the University of Wisconsin
• NativeWeb This site presents information on Indigenous peoples in Mexico, Central, and South America. §
• Photographers as Storytellers An illustrated essay by Joan M. Jensen about American Indian women photographers whose photos tell stories.
• Pottery by American Indian Women An illustrated essay by Susan Peterson about women potters and their craft.
• Rigoberta Menchu Rigoberta Menchú received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 and became the first indigenous women in receiving this distinction

• What Is A Women's Issue? A working definition of "Women's Issues" and an overview of some of the topics this site covers:

• Women's Issues News A weekly summary of women's news and daily information.
• Barbie Fixation  Playing up the sex appeal of female technology executives is an old game for business magazines looking for newsstand sales, and one that dismisses the real achievements of women in favor of their looks.
• Beauty and the Geeks  One common complaint of prominent women in Silicon Valley is that, while they are trying to develop and promote exciting new technologies, the media remains obsessively and single-mindedly focused on their looks and their gender.
• Case Study: Female Infanticide Focus: (1) India (2) China Detailed article from Gendercide Watch (For more on China, click the casahistoria site on women in China)
• Women of Color: Fight for Change through literature Extensive Readings and (for teachers) suggested lesson plans, from Phillis Wheatley, Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hainsberry, Nikki Giovanni, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou and Paule Marshall.

• Women of Color Email Lists Joan Korenman's extensive list of email discussions on issues related to women of color: from literature to business issues to Muslim women.

Girls and Education                       

• Girls and Computers Why Doesn't Barbie Want To Play With Pascal? Why Girls Don't Want To Be Geeks §
• The Gender Gap in Computing many links to this topic by Robert Kennedy.
• Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age Key findings of the new study by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation.  § See also "Educating Girls in the Tech Age: A Report on Equity" which places the report in a recent context
• Separate--But Still Short-Changed Washington Post article about sexism in education, by David and Jacqueline Sadker   §
• Myra Sadker Foundation. Excellent articles and links to related sites on gender imbalance in Education. Includes:
  • Single-sex Schools: A Good Idea Gone Wrong?
  • Teacher Education and Textbooks: The Unfinished Revolution
  • An Education Primer to the Gender War
  • Gender Equity: Still Knocking on the Classroom Door
• Single-Gender Classes: Are They Better? Wesley Sharpe offers two points of view on this Curriculum topic: What happens to the bright-eyed exuberance of girls between the primary grades and high school graduation? Do schools shortchange boys?
• Sexism in language An article by Elisabeth D. Kuhn, from Perspectives on Multiculturalism and Cultural Diversity, a publication of Virginia Commonwealth University.   §
• Achieving Gender Equity in Science Classrooms Intended for teachers at Brown University, but interesting reading.    §

• Feminism Against Science Steven Goldberg argues in National Review against growing feminist ideology in conclusions in science
• Fromm, Erich, Feminism, Frankfurt School Douglas Kellner's (difficult) analysis of Fromm's theories on the differences between men and women.
• If feminism has undermined the private lives of Bill Clinton, a few MPs, and the motley crew that is our monarchy, I say "good." Suzanne Moore responds in a 1999 Article from New Statesman to statements by men about feminism. §
• Troublesome Helpmate: A History of Misogyny in Literature Summary format of the 1966 book by Katherine M. Rogers where, after discussing misogyny in Western writers from Aristotle to Hemingway, Rogers concludes with a nice summary of the male psychology of patriarchy. In her conclusion, she discusses why men become misogynists and she emphasizes that men fear that if women are ever freed from their restrictions, women will become men's master.

Suffrage

• How It Feels to Be the Husband of a Suffragette Facsimile of amusing, supportive pamphlet (circa 1915), by an anonymous male writer. Not all that easy to navigate however.
• Mark Twain: Votes for Women 1901 speech by Mark Twain declaring himself a "womens rights man".
• Men's League for Women's Suffrage Details and documentary support from Spartacus.

• Biographies of Notable Women  On this site: a growing collection of biographies of notable women: both some who are well-known, and others you might want to learn about.
• Women in world history straightforward and useful series of lessons for schools on key aspects of women's history. Well supported by documents, activities.
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present Comprehensive listing of women in history.  
• Emancipation of Women and Women's Suffrage from the Spartacus educational Site. Excellent information 
• Internet Women's History Sourcebook A massive site telling the story of women's History through the ages. Use the index and choose a time to read about!
• Women's History Encyclopedia The Encyclopedia of Women's History needs you! If you've got something to say about women's history -- about an individual, a topic, an event, a famous first -- you can add it to this large online project easily. Learn more here. Easy to use.
• Women in uniform US site looking at the role women have played in the US armed forces from the war of Independence to Iraq.

9. Researching Women's History

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• Genesis is a mapping initiative, funded by the UK Research Support Libraries Programme to identify and develop access to women's history sources in the British Isles. The database holds descriptions of women's history collections from libraries, archives and museums from around the British Isles. Use it to search the Genesis database by using a search box on the opening page.
• H-Women Discussion Group Scholarly discussion to communicate current research and teaching interests, to test new ideas and to share comments on current historiography.
• WWW Virtual Library of Women's History This virtual library contains a very comprehensive list of women's history in institutions and organizations
• Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections  Maintained by the Archives for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Texas at San Antonio, this list is the most comprehensive source of information about Internet sites related to women's archival collections. Over 70 collections are identified and listed geographically. A massive, serious, list arranged geographically, this is the place for one-stop shopping
• Library Collections Library collections of original sources (letters, diaries, papers, etc.) on the topic of women's history.  From about.com

• Pictures, Photographs, Portraits and Posters Women's history in images from about.com  Includes several specialized galleries including 17th century costume, women and the Civil War, pictures of the women's suffrage movement, World War I, World War II
• Documents of Women's History A growing library of documents for studying women's history. Speeches, articles, biographies, stories and more
• Etexts and Women's History: about.com Where to find etexts on women's history on the Net.
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Very extensive range of documents. Each category of documents begins with a useful thematic essay. About a third of the document projects on Women and Social Movements are freely available on the web. This is well worth searching through.
• Other Women's Voices Interesting site that takes you to passages from over 125 women writers. The entries are on women who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700, some or all of which has been translated into modern English. Each entry tells you about the print sources from which the translated passages are taken; it also tells you of useful secondary sources and Internet sites
• The Girl's Own Paper, 1880-1941 This site contains an index of all the fiction stories and non-fiction articles from the Girl's Own Paper covering the period 1880 to 1941 (Volumes 1 to 62). The index was compiled by Honor Ward, and a version of the fiction index has appeared in the Girl's Own Guide

the casahistoria Women's History sub-sites:

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  Site 1: Women's History - Early History

Researching Women's History | Medieval Women

16th & 17th century | Witches and Witchcraft

  Site 2: Women & the 19th century - industrialisation & emancipation

(a) Great Britain: Social position | Work |Emancipation movements

(b) USA: Work | Emancipation movements | African-American women

  Site 3: Suffrage Movement in Gt Britain

  Site 4: Suffrage Movement in the USA

  Site 5: Women in Totalitarian States:

Stalin's Russia | Nazi Germany | Fascist Italy |Communist China

  Site 6: 20th century - the impact

Women & Modern War | Women in Art & Science |

Women in the Developing World | Women's Issues | Girls and Education