At UConn: Permanent Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) Public Hearing, Wednesday, February 27, 2008

PCSW Public Hearing Topic: Getting To A Better Tomorrow: Economic And Financial Security — Wednesday, February 27, 2008
A large number of Connecticut families are finding that their costs are rising faster than their wages. A recent report, Where Connecticut Stands, commissioned by the PCSW stated that 19%, or one-in-five Connecticut households lacks enough money to [...]

Challenging Fundamentalisms – A Web Resource for Women’s Human Rights – A Special Focus of WHRnet

Challenging Fundamentalisms – A Web Resource for Women’s Human Rights – A Special Focus of WHRnet
From About this web site, this resource is a joint project of:

The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
Rights and Democracy
Women Living Under Muslim Laws

Clearinghouse of very current Issues and Analysis. Try it out and add a comment to this [...]

YouTube – Nichelle Nichols remembers Martin Luther King

YouTube – Nichelle Nichols remembers Martin Luther King
Another thing to be thankful to Dr. Martin Luther King for — he insisted that Nichelle Nichols not leave Star Trek after her first season. Inspiring!

Rutgers University Libraries: Global Women’s Activism: Selected Sites

Global Women’s Activism: Selected Sites from Rutgers University.
Transnational as well as country specific sites, organized by continent. Contains documents, publications, statistics, and much more from Women’s Activists around the world.
Very fine collection. Many thanks to Kayo Denda, Women’s Studies Librarian at Rutgers.

Independent Women’s Forum: Conservative Feminism?

Dear Readers,
I apologize for the long absence.
March is National Women’s History Month (which started out as NWH Week) and I’m preparing a web site of resources which will be linked from the News section on the Library main page. More about that in another post.
However, this has made me take a whirlwind tour of [...]