Websites for women’s studies students: finding, evaluating, promoting

This paper aims to identify and review websites that contribute knowledge about and by women for scholars in women’s studies.

The authors scoured the internet for those sites with timely, authoritative research reports about and by women with a feminist viewpoint.

There are many gems that provide statistical, theoretical and heuristic insights into the condition of women that may, unless promoted, not be discovered by students who need them.

New websites will be created and others described herein will evolve.

The lived experiences of women are largely not covered by standard reference sources, and this requires the librarian to seek out and promote the freely available websites out there that help inform scholars about the experiences of half the world’s population.

There is not one place where the gender and women’s studies librarian can go to find a comprehensive list of the freely available resources that can benefit the feminist scholar, and this paper brings together many of them in one place.