Justice for Women


Comparable Worth Article about the pros and cons of the idea that when jobs filled mostly by women are judged "comparable" to jobs filled mostly by men, wages for both should be the same. From Issues in Ethics, a publication of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University

Affirmative Action: Twenty-five Years of Controversy Another article from Issues in Ethics

Affirmative Action Factsheets Origins of Affirmative Action for Women. Expanding Employment Opportunities for Women. Expanding Educational Opportunities for Women

Ethics Updates: Literature on Gender Provides: 1. internet links relating to gender; 2. survey of philosophical work on gender; 3. summaries of recent articles on gender; 4. discussion topics and term paper topics on gender

WomensNet Computer network for women, activists and organizations using computer networks for information sharing and increasing women's rights. Provides email accounts, internet access, WWW publishing, consulting and training

Women's Rights Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Convention on the Political Rights of Women. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict

Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Project

Sex Discrimination Guaranteeing Equal Rights for Women. Statement on the Equal Rights Amendment. Supreme Court Developments Anti-discrimination projects in switzerland. Convention on the elimination of discrimination against women j. e. b., petitioner v. alabama. Pregnancy discrimination. Private sector information. Statement of senator kennedy

Mixture - Antisexist Alternative A union of mixed groups of students against sexism in Europe

Questionnaire: Men and Women Even if you don't respond to this questionnaire from the Fall 1995 issue of the Hungry Mind Review, it will do you good to reflect on these questions

Men & Women; Justice & Compassion Article from Issues in Ethics, a publication of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University

Women's Rights are Human Rights "Rights & Wrongs" looks beyond Beijing at progress made on women's rights--both globally and within the United States. We examine the growing empowerment of nongovernmental organizations (NGO's) with Bella Abzug and discuss the strategies that made the outcome of Beijing so successful. We also meet three grassroots activists from Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and the United States who discuss their work and how women's issues are linked globally. Also, anchor Charlayne Hunter-Gault interviews Vandana Shiva, an Indian economist and women's activist

Women at Work: The Conference Papers, May 1987 Scroll down to Volume III and find about a dozen articles on topics including Workforce Flexibility: Implications for Women Workers; Gender and the Choice of Physicians' Employment Status; The Comparative Sociology of Women Lawyers: The "Feminization" of the Legal Profession; Disciplinary Differences in Research Performance by Female Academicians: The Effect of the Proportion of Women; Work and Family Roles and Women's Mental Health; Recovery from Unemployment in Latino Women After a Plant Closure; Some Implications of Maternal Employment for the Mother and the Family; Women, Work and Welfare: The Need for a Community Model; Sex Differences in the Allocation of Work Effort Among Professionals and Managers; Physical Activity on the Job: Effects on Birth Outcomes and Implications for Public Policy; Work and Women's Health: The Role of Job Based Social Support; Sex Object and Worker: Incompatible images of Women

Making Face, Making Soul... a Chicana feminist homepage

Witness to a Slave Raid Human bondage is a woman’s issue. Slavery is daily rape. And we have just learned that women slaves chosen as concubines in Sudan are genitally mutilated. Here is the testimony of Jane Alley, a Southern Sudanese woman who escaped a raid on her village

The Wage Gap: Women's and Men's Earnings According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, the wage gap between men and women finally began decreasing in the 1980s after holding steady for fifteen years; by 1995 women were earning close to 72 percent of what their male counterparts earned. Unfortunately, though, the gap has narrowed in part owing to a decline in men's wages

Gender and the Law Links, Articles, Race and Racism, Health Care, Legal Education



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