Links To Web Sites Of Interest To Women
Go Red For Women - American Heart Association
www.goredforwomen.org
Go Red For Women celebrates the energy, passion and power we have as women to band together to wipe out heart disease and stroke.
Choose To Move - American Heart Association
www.choosetomove.org
Choose To Move is the American Heart Association's free 12-week physical activity program for women. The program shows women how to Choose To Move by being physically active, eating healthfully, loving their body, selecting nutritious foods and taking time for themselves.
Identity Theft - Federal Trade Commission
www.ftc.gov/idtheft/
The U.S. government's central web site for information about identity theft.
National Women's Hall of Fame
www.greatwomen.org
Come stand among the great women. Explore the biographies of The Hall's inductees.
The National Women's Health Information Center
www.4woman.gov
In November 1998, Office on Women's Health
within the Department of Health and Human Services(OWH DHHS) launched this broad-based web site for women’s health
information, today’s "women’s health central" for Federal and private sector information about
women’s health for the public, health care professionals, medical researchers, educators and the media.
The Women's Rights National Historic Park
www.nps.gov/wori/wrnhp.htm
The history of the women's rights movement and the history of its founders is
the focus of the Women's Rights National Historic Park. Legislation establishing
the Park was signed on December 28, 1980. The Park is in the early stages of
development in Seneca Falls and Waterloo. The setting for the First Women's
Rights Convention and the homes of some participants are preserved today as
Women's Rights National Historical Park, established by Congressional Act in
1980. Sites at the park include: Declaration Park, Wesleyan Chapel, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton House, Hunt House, and the McClintock House. The center is fully
accessible to the mobility impaired; check with park staff for access to other sites.
The U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission
www.eeoc.gov
Mission is to promote equal opportunity in
employment by enforcing the federal civil rights employment laws through
administrative and judicial actions, and education and technical assistance.
The Anthony Center for Women's Leadership
www.rochester.edu/SBA
The Susan B. Anthony House site
www.susanbanthonyhouse.org
National Congress of Black Women, Inc.
www.npcbw.org
NCBW is non-partisan and is the first organization that has its primary mission the
political empowerment of African American women.
The National Women's Hall of Fame
www.greatwomen.org
The National Organization for Women
www.now.org
National Partnership for Women & Families
www.nationalpartnership.org
Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998
www.legacy98.org
Take Our Daughters To Work®
www.takeourdaughterstowork.org
Feminist Majority Foundation
www.feminist.org
Women's Wire
www.women.com
Search engine with a focus on information for women
www.femina.com
Ms. Foundation for Women (The National Women's Fund)
www.ms.foundation.org
The Foundation has a strong record of crafting creative and effective grantmaking,
training, and public education strategies to create and improve economic opportunities
for women in the United States; safeguard women’s health and safety; and help girls
sustain their self-confidence and vitality.
Women for Women International
www.womenforwomen.org
Women for Women International is dedicated to building a world that ensures
equality and justice for all. Women for Women International's definition of
justice includes economic, political, and social justices that has gender
equality at its core. Women for Women International envisions a world where
no woman is abused, poor, illiterate or marginalized; where women have full
and equal participation in processes that ensure their health, well-being,
and economic independence; and where women have the freedom to define their
lives, future and reach their full potential. Women for Women International
provides women with tools and resources needed to move out of crisis and
poverty and into stability and self-sufficiency. The main programs include
direct aid (scholarships), microcredit lending, and skills training, rights
awareness and leadership development.
RAWA
www.rawa.org
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a political/social
organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights
in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan. One of its goals is to give Afghan women social
and political awareness in regard to their rights and potentialities. The RAWA Web site
states "The nature and range of crimes perpetrated against Afghan women by fundamentalists
has no precedence in modern history. Afghan fundamentalists and particularly Taliban treat
women as degraded souls whose only function is to satiate men's lusts and reproduce!"
Equality Now
www.equalitynow.org
Equality Now is an international human rights organization dedicated to action for the civil,
political, economic and social rights of girls and women. Taking advantage of both traditional
and “high-tech” action techniques such as letter-writing and fax campaigns, video witnessing,
media events and public information activities, Equality Now mobilizes action on behalf of
individual women whose rights are being violated and promotes women's rights at local,
national and international levels. Some of the many human rights issues of urgent concern
to Equality Now include: rape, trafficking, domestic violence, female infanticide, genital
mutilation, reproductive rights, gender discrimination, political representation, sexual
harassment, and pornography.
The Heifer Project
www.heifer.org
The Heifer Project helps families lift themselves out of poverty permanently. Cows, pigs,
sheep, goats and baby chicks are bought for families in need. Heifer Project animals
(and training in their care) offer hungry families around the world a way to feed themselves
and become self-reliant. Children receive nutritious milk or eggs; families earn income for
school, health care and better housing; communities go beyond meeting immediate needs to
fulfilling dreams. Farmers learn sustainable, environmentally sound agricultural techniques.
International Justice Mission
www.ijm.org
The International Justice Mission is a Christian ministry, led by human rights professionals,
that helps people suffering injustice and oppression who cannot rely on local authorities for
relief. The ministry documents and monitors conditions of abuse and oppression, educates the
church and public about the abuses, and mobilizes intervention on behalf of the victims.
Healing the Children-Florida/Georgia
www.htcfl.org
Healing the Children is dedicated to providing donated medical care to children in need. Healing
the Children believes that a child should never die or live in pain simply because of a lack
of financial or technical resources. The children come from some of the poorest neighborhoods
of our global community. For many, the medical care that Healing the Children is able to
procure is the only chance that a child has to live. Thankfully, in the United States, most
children who require life-saving surgeries are able to receive services.
Social Security Online for Women
www.ssa.gov/women/
What every woman should know about social security, retirement, survivors, disability,
supplemental security income, Medicare and more.
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