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"ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields."
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.
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. Full list of data sources here.
"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."
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.
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.
"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.
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."
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.
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
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.
