POLS 242: Women in War and Peace (HC)

Website that makes conference papers searchable with many available full text. SSRN collects conference papers, journal article pre-prints and working papers in the social sciences.

UN Women’s flagship report, “Progress of the world’s women 2019–2020: Families in a changing world”, assesses the reality of families today in the context of sweeping economic, demographic, political, and social transformation. The report features global, regional, and national data. See this page for more UN reports on the status of women.

James McGann at the University of Pennsylvania ranks public policy organizations each year. The report organizes ranking globally and by region of the world in addition to rankings by area of research. Good for identifying new think tanks as sources of research and analysis. Also valuable for providing differing points of view both those from outside the United States as well as from a range of political ideologies.

"In this paper, Julia Clark and David Roodman investigate whether better ranking is possible by exploiting modern tools for measuring citations in both traditional and new media, as well as in academe. "

Commentary and analysis sponsored by the Social Sciences Research Council. See also this page of SSRC work and experts on Africa.

Offers resources on many different issues related to women.

See such news and reports as "Women Are Mysteriously Missing from D.C. Think Tanks’ Foreign Policy Panels. Here’s the Data" (August 2019) and "Democracy Support Strategies: Leading with Women's Political Empowerment" (September 2016).

The website includes interviews with many international political figures.

See in particular the section on Gender.

A research and advocacy group for recruiting and advancing women in the field of international security.