Gender

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Gender

Race, Ethnicity & Identity and Gender, Sexuality and the Body
Each link above connects to a different part of the New American Studies Web at Georgetown. Includes links to Women in Art, Women's Studies, Women's History and Women's Movements. The Identity section includes Gender and Identities.

Gender Issues Research Center

http://www.gendercenter.org/

Includes vital links on legislation from abortion to men's health, public opinion polls, listings of current publications addressing gender issues including men's movement to women in entertainment, media listings from current events to higher education publications and statistics ranging from crime to health and leisure.

Gender Bias Issues in the College Classroom: A Study of the Interactions between Psychological and Environmental Types

(http://mysite.verizon.net/dwsalter/stuff/NAWE.htm)

Office of the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/

"Gender Mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy for promoting gender equality... not an end in itself but a strategy, an approach, ... to the goal of gender equality are central to all activities - policy development, research, advocacy/ dialogue, legislation, resource allocation, and planning, implementation and monitoring of programmes and projects. "

Gender Issues in Math and Technology

http://www.terc.edu/mathequity/gender.html

Good site for Math and Education schools, especially for Education and Math majors.

Time Out For Tolerance - Mount Holyoke
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rlsmith/timeoutfortolerance.html

Site includes sections on Hate Crimes , Lesson Plans, Creating Diversity Clubs and Religious Intolerance.

Beyond Title IX: Gender Equity Issues in Schools

http://www.maec.org/beyond.html

From the Mid-Atlantic Equity Center, selected topics including Gender Bias in Student/Teacher Interactions, Gender Bias in Standarized Tests, and Gender Differences in Learning Styles.

The National Center for Gender Issues and ADHD

http://ncgiadd.org/

ADHD often manifests differently in women than men. For women their diagnosis is often incorrect or missed entirely which can lead to problems in academic as well as social development.

Women & Feminism

Wellesley Centers for Research on Women

http://www.wellesley.edu/WCW/crwsub.html

Wellesley offers excellent reports on research: Gender and Sexuality , Longitudinal Research on Partner Violence, Child Physical Abuse, and Child Sexual Abuse , Project on Teasing and Bullying , Sexual Harassment in Schools , Women in Community Development (WICD) Higher Education for Lower-Income Women: A Real Route Out of Poverty , Women Leaders , Women's Rights Network , Zero Tolerance

University of Maryland, Women's Studies.
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/GenderIssues/

Listing range with in the following : Government listings of caucus updates, military legislation to name a few; Syllabi ranging from Spirituality and Religion to research methods and global perspectives on feminism; numerous Film Reviews are alphabetized; Gender Issues range from predictable to higher education and aging, related and diverse Web Sites. The reading room has a modest collection of academic papers, one of which is most relevant to the recent approval of The Rev. Gene Robinson as the Suffragen Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire, The Cultural Necessity of Queer Families.

Feminist Teacher

(http://www.uwec.edu/wmns/FeministTeacher/)

Feminist Teacher is a journal for feminist teachers at all levels (from early childhood through higher education), in both traditional classroom and nontraditional teaching situations.

Helping Teachers Optimize the Learning of Female Students
(http://srufaculty.sru.edu/patsy.johnson/GASAT8UpdatedFormat.htm)

Teachers can influence female students during the critical adolescent years in which girls are making decisions that may affect their futures irrevocably. This paper describes a graduate course developed to help elementary and secondary teachers.

Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection: Women & Gender Issues http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/women.htm

A broad collection of relevant articles and research listed by country. Very useful for international students, history and philosophy schools. Includes syllabus for a course on women and gender in the ancient Near East and various papers, including Women in Islam Versus Women in the Judeo-Christian Tradition: The Myth & The Reality, Dr. Sherif Abdel Azeem

Women and Gender in the Ancient World

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/

Peer-reviewed scholarly articles of Women & Gender in the Ancient World.

Transgender

Transgender, Gender Expression and Identity Issues

(http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Transgender_Issues1)

Compassionate and concise quick links include Transgender Basics, Transgender 101: An Introduction to Issues Surrounding Gender Identity and Expression ,and Legal Services

Gender Education and Advocacy

http://www.gender.org/

The web site for providing resources and activism for the transgender community. "The primary challenges facing gender educators is to place transgendered experience into a context by which it can be readily understood. " The site provides many resources including medical issues beyond surgery.

Inclusive Language

Guidelines for Gender Fair Use of Language - the National Council for Teachers of English
(http://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/la/write/107647.htm)

Language and Gender Syllabi

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/gender.html

Twenty six varied syllabi for courses on language and gender taught around the country including linguistics, anthropology, folklore, English, education, French, and German.

Gender Issues in the Language Arts Classroom

http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed426409.html

Addresses gender issues in literature and ways in which interpretation can be positively or adversely affected by the instructor.

 


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