Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Gender and Sport
Serena Williams, Mia Hamm, and Danica Patrick are living proof that women enjoy sports just as much as men. Sports enthusiasts read about the importance of gender equality on the playing field. They discover barriers to participation and...
Ungei
Girls’ Success: Mentoring Guide For Life Skills
Provide girls with the developmental skills they need with a booklet designed by the non-profit AED Center for Gender Equity. Each section of the mentoring guide includes discussion questions and activities as well as...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Britannica Kids: Women Who Changed the World: Women's Movement
Encyclopedia Britannica provides an overview of the women's movement, which sought equality for women and the changing of a male-dominated power structure.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Mary Mc Leod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune was one of the most important black educators, civil and women's rights leaders, and government officials of the twentieth century.
Other
Aclu: Title Ix the Nine
Brief biographies of nine visionary people who supported equal opportunity for women in education and sports.
Digital History
Digital History: Feminism Reborn
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
Other
The Human Right to Freedom From Discrimination
This site discusses the "human right to freedom from any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on gender, race, color, national or ethnic origin, language, religion, political or other opinion, age, or any other status,...
City University of New York
Chinese Cultural Studies: Women in China: Past and the Present
This article discusses the equality problems women in China face even though things have changed since 1949. Includes information on divorce.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Betty Friedan
Journalist, activist, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan was one of the early leaders of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 70s.
National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame: Betty Friedan
The National Women's Hall of Fame offers an outline of the life and accomplishnments of women's rights activist Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique."
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Eleanor Holmes Norton
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Eleanor Holmes Norton, an American lawyer and politician who broke several gender and racial barriers during her career, in which she defended the rights of others for equal opportunity.