LibGuides: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Topics LibGuide: Feminist and Women's Leadership, Public Policy, Governance and Politics

Women in Leadership: Timelines and Websites

10 Female Heads of State who changed the world
COFEM offers perspective on "What is Feminist Leadership?"
Countries with Female Leaders
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - UN biography
First Female Elected President of Liberia & Nobel Peace Laureate
First Female Elected President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir:
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir: The World’s First Female Elected President (Library of Congress Site)
Feminist Movements from 1880 to the present
Timeline and resources - Duke University (see upper right corner of page)
EU Who's Who?
Global Women's Leadership Network
Institute for Women's Leadership
National Women's Studies Association-Women of Color Leadership Project
Timeline of Feminism
Wikipedia page.
Timeline of Women Leaders Britannica
Web Site timeline from Britannica.
Top Female Leaders Around the World - Time Magazine
2025 update
Which countries have been female led? MAPS
Women's History Milestones - Timeline
The Women's leadership Gap from the Center for American Progress

Women in Politics and Policy Making

Center for American Women and Politics
"The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is nationally recognized as the leading source of scholarly research and current data about American women's political participation." This page includes election coverage pertaining to women in office, essays and statistics on women in U.S. politics.
Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL)
From the Rutgers University, "CWGL has fostered women's leadership in the area of human rights through women's global leadership institutes, strategic planning activities, international mobilization campaigns, UN monitoring, global education endeavors, publications, and a resource center."
Center for Women in Government & Civil Society - UAlbany's Rockefeller College
This Center offers online full-text research reports and analysis on women in state leadership, gubernatorial appointments, policy issues such as democratic representation and underrepresentation of people of color. Archival collection for this organization is held in M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives at the University Libraries, University at Albany.
Fannie Lou Hamer
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Forensic Social Worker "Cessie Alfonso" Blazes Trails in Profession and Capital Punishment Case Sentencing
Harvard, Schlesinger Library, Papers of Cessie Alfonso, 1945-2016, Also found under Alfonso Associates. Ms. Alfonso works to develop social histories of those convicted and face the death penalty. The social histories are shared in court and may mitigate sentences. Electronic finding aide available.
Gifts of Speech
"Women's Speeches From Around the World. This site offers an archive of speeches by “influential, contemporary women.” Almost all of the speeches in the collection come directly from the authors themselves or from the organizations representing them and have not been published elsewhere. The main focus is the period since 1900, although some speeches made between 1800 and 1900 are included. There are currently more than 400 speeches and the number continues to grow." Sweet Briar College, Virginia
National Women's Leadership Forum, American Council on Education
A "leadership development program for women administrators seeking to advance to executive positions in higher education."
Sojourner Truth's Speeches
See also the Sojourner Truth Virtual Institute.

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Quotations and speeches from Institute thehttp://ugrr.thewright.org/41-view-other-media.html?id=3005&title=sojourner_truth_virtual_institute

http://www.sojournertruth.org/Library/Speeches/Default.htm
Status of Women in the States
Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) Click on "Collections" to find particular resources like "Data and Statistics" https://womensdigitallibrary.org/category/data-and-statistics-collection/
Women's, Gender & Sexuality databases - University at Albany
Women in National Parliaments
Table showing the representation of women in the parliaments of over 100 countries. This table was compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Women in Politics (The Inter-Parliamentary Union)
The Inter-Parliamentary Union's Web page on the representation of in women in the political systems of the world's sovereign states. Includes statistical information.
Women Nobel Prize Laureates
Documents women Nobel Laureates from 1903 to the present. Includes biographies, bibliographies and related links. Also see http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/women.html
World Political Leaders
Includes information on world leaders from 1945-present, women leaders, current rulers, and data on length of office for some leaders.
Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
A Danish student's personal page provides an extensive listing of women leaders. The author indicates he found most information on the Web. Some of the sources for the information listed can be found on the author's page. Be sure to double check other sources.
Women and Politics
From UW Women's Knowledge Digital Library

Social Sciences/Sociology Data, Statistics, Methodology

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Find article citations and abstracts in core and specialized journals and books in the social sciences. Core disciplines covered are anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, with additional coverage in other social science fields. Thirty percent of the records are in languages other than English.
Dissertations & Theses: Global
Find doctoral dissertations and master's theses from universities and institutions all around the world.

FINDING Data Resources

Data Planet
A multidisciplinary data repository covering business, economics, finance, social sciences, demographics, public health, and more. Contains many tools for exporting, comparing, analyzing and visualizing the datasets.

Statistics Resources - U Albany Link to Reference Sources
WomanStats Project
Check out the DATA and CodeBook Tabs.

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"We track over 350 variables in 175 countries, including issues such as rape, sex trafficking, maternal and child mortality, family law, women in government and the military, and many others. All these variables are listed and explained in our codebook."
"The WomanStats Project began in 2001 with the aim of investigating the link between the security and behavior of states and the situation and security of the women within them. Since that time, it has grown to include thirteen principal investigators at nine universities across four countries, representing six fields of study: international relations, geography, psychology, sustainable development, statistics, and sociology. The Project has also been a source of mentoring to over 120 students, many of whom have gone on to post-graduate work."
NO Ceilings (Dataset from "The Full Participation Report"
"The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation have joined forces to gather data and analyze the gains made for women and girls over the last two decades, as well as the gaps that remain.

This site and The Full Participation Report are the result—home to 850,000 data points, spanning more than 20 years, from over 190 countries. Through data visualizations and stories, we aim to present the gains and gaps in understandable, sharable ways—including by making the data open and easily available."

ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
Find and download data sets and documentation in sociology, political science, education, economics, and other areas. Users may search for data, but will need to create an account to download data.

Sociology (Social Science Data Archives and Statistics)
Page from Lorre Smith, Sociology Bibliographer, U Albany
OECD Statistics-Database Searching

OECD iLibrary provides electronic access to all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development books, reports, annuals, working papers, loose-leaf binders, periodicals and databases. This database contains research on social and policy issues, as well as a wealth of statistical information. Use the "Advanced Search" option to search all information.
EIU ViewsWire - Economist Intelligence Unit
From Economist Intelligence Unit, ViewsWire pulls out relevant material from all of EIU's many publications and organizes it by country and region. Between 100-150 articles are added each day. The service goes beyond simply reporting news by incorporating sophisticated analyses of political, economic and business developments. For each country the information is arranged in three sections: Background, Briefings and Forecasts. EIU ViewsWire supports navigation by country, by subject, and by a powerful search facility, which includes the option to set up a range of personal profiles. Search MINERVA Catalog for information on all issues.

Public Policy Resources and Associations

Equal Rights Amendment(ERA), Justice and Equity: Sex Discrimination vs Sexual Harassment in Policy Controversies and Law

ERA: Equal Rights Amendment (National )
Women do not have constitutional rights. The ERA could change this and impact many courts.
ERA

VOTING Rights

Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers of a Civil Rights Activist, Political Activist, and Woman

New York Policy Changes on Sex Discrimination (Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, Gender/Sex based Violence)

New York State Equal Rights Amendment
League of Women Voters describe the newly adopted ERA in the NY State Constitution.
Article: Removing "pervasive" in NY Sex Discrimination Law
Discusses bills passed in June 2019 to lower the standard of review for sexual harassment cases (S.6577 [Biaggi]/A.8421 [Simotas] and a related amendment [S. 6594/A. 8424])

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Also consult - Breest v. Haggis -
New York civil case - #161137/2017
Sex Discrimination: Harassment - Press Release
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This links to information from a press release from the AGs office. WARNING: Graphic Descriptions
Impeachment Libguide (Political Science)
POLITICO article: heres-how-impeachment-works-in-new-york-1389410
Politico has an article about impeachment in NY.

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