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Women's History Resources

Baltimore 200 - America's City of Firsts
Biographical information on three Baltimore women "firsts:"

Celebrate Women's History Month
Gale celebrates Women's History with this section of pages of valuable information, ranging from classroom activities (elementary through high school), biographies of leading women throughout history to hyperlinks to other WWW sites focusing on women.

A Celebration of Women Writers
An incredible list of women authors from Jane Addams to Helen Zimmern whose works are available on-line.

Department of Labor Women's Bureau
Labor statistics, federal regulations, educational resources.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. The database may be searched by field of activity or by name.

Diotima-Women and Gender in the Classical World
A scholarly site which is intended to serve as an interdisciplinary resource for those interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean. Of most interest to high school students and instructors.

History of the Suffrage Movement
Includes an excellent timeline from 1792 to today

National First Ladies' Library 
Includes bibliographies and links to relevant sources on the First Ladies.

National Women's History Project
Organizer of Women's History Month activities and materials.

Florence Nightingale Exhibit
Includes digitized images of pages from her letters (and transcriptions).

No Safe Place
The companion site to the PBS Series. Includes a teacher's guide.

One Woman, One Vote
Information about the PBS program of the same name, as well as the following sections: "The History of the Suffrage Movement," "A Brief Timeline of the Women Suffrage Movement," "Discussion Questions for the Classroom," and "Suggested Readings."

United Nations WomenWatch
An umbrella site for the study of women's issues worldwide.

UNIFEM: United Nations Development Fund for Women
A well developed site for high school research on global women's issues. This site monitors women's rights world wide.

"Votes for Women"
Collection of pictures related to the women's suffrage movement in the Americam Memory project sponsored by the Library of Congress.

Women's History Month from Social Studies School Services
Includes lesson plans and web links. Great K-12 resource.

Feminist Internet Gateway
A good list of other Internet sites from the Feminist Majority website.

Women's History Sites
A long and comprehensive list of Internet links from the Distinguished Women of Past and Present website.

Women in American History by the Encyclopaedia Britannica

Women in America, 1820 to 1842
The experiences of women in the new republic as recorded by eighteen European travelers to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. The writings are organized both chronologically and topically, allowing readers to compare the writing of several authors on a given subject.

Women in World History
Interactive site full of information and resources about women's experiences in world history. Includes Female Heroes, Lessons, Reviews, Current Events, and Words of Wisdom.

Women in the Workforce Quiz
An introductory quiz compiled by the Department of Labor to test your knowledge on women's roles in the workforce. Answers are included.

Women in the Workplace
Articles from the magazine Women's History

Women's Studies Links(Yale)
A categorized linking of hundreds of web sites related to women's studies

Women's Studies Resources (University of Maryland, College Park)
The database contains collections of conference announcements, calls for papers, and employment opportunities, as well as a picture gallery, and a significant number of government documents, and much more.

Woman Suffrage and the 19th Ammendment
A National Archives resource including primary documents and lessons.

Women Nobel Prize Laureates
Information on all women who have won the Nobel Prize.

Women Mathematicians
An excellent web page providing biographies of women in mathematics. Names are given in alphabetical and chronological order.

4000 Years of Women in Science
Biographies of over 100 women from our scientific and technical past (before 1900).

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