Research Guides: Political Science: Women in government

Scholarly Sources on Women's and Gender Studies

Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new window
Gender Studies Database combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Gender Studies Database covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Web are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.
Alternate titles: GSD
Published by: EBSCO Publishing (Databases)
Contemporary Women's Issues This link opens in a new window
CWI is a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. It includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe.
Alternate titles: CWI; RDS contemporary women's issues
Published by: Gale/Cengage Learning, Inc.