Affirmative Action (http://www.siop.org/AfirmAct/siopsaartoc.aspx) - lengthy online report, Affirmative Action: A Review of Psychological and Behavioral Research, "prepared by a subcommittee of the Scientific Affairs Committee of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, October, 1996."
GenderNet (http://www.worldbank.org/gender/) - From The World Bank Group, this site "seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development."
Tailhook '91 (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/navy/tailhook/) - PBS Frontline show on the Navy Tailhook Convention where "83 women and 7 men were assaulted during the three-day aviators' convention, according to a report by the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DOD)."
"Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity" (http://www.ncwge.org/title9at30-6-11.pdf) - (June, 2002) - in PDF - "Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity is a follow-up to the 1997 NCWGE publication, Title IX at 25: Report Card on Gender Equity. This new report reassesses the law five years later and examines the state of gender equity in education in ten key areas: access to higher education, athletics, career education, employment, learning environment, math and science, sexual harassment, standardized testing, technology, and treatment of pregnant and parenting students."
Perceptions of men and women as business leaders (http://www.catalyst.org/files/full/Women%20Take%20Care%20Men%20Take%20Charge.pdf) - "Women 'take care,' men 'take charge': Stereotyping of U.S. business leaders exposed" is a research report from Catalyst. "In this exploratory study, Catalyst takes a detailed view of corporate leadership.We consider ten essential behaviors required of corporate leaders. By looking at leadership as a set of separate but related behaviors, we pinpoint just where women leaders are vulnerable to stereotyping, and show how the negative effects of stereotyping on any particular leader behavior can spill over to other leader behaviors. This specificity gives us a better foundation for recommending solutions."
A sad yet utterly fascinating story is told in this Chicago Tribune series (2004) of young girls being forced to marry as early as seven years of age. The first link tells of such practices in Ethiopia. The second link is to the second and more hopeful installment of this story, covering efforts in Egypt to reverse the devastating effects of this practice. The third link is to a story covering early marriage in the U.S.
Body Image
About-Face.org (http://about-face.org/) - "a San Francisco-based group, About-Face combats negative and distorted images of women" - site contains hundreds of images of women, negatively and positively portrayed, with commentary. Also a few research articles and "lots o' links" to body image and other topics
"Rebranding the Hyena" (http://www.sciencenews.org/20020427/bob10.asp) - fascinating article on the social world of the hyena - The spotted hyena is one of the few mammals in which the female is the dominant sex. Also interesting is the research on the "immigrant male" who has left his original clan to attempt to join a new clan. Entering the clan at the bottom of the hierarchy, the immigrant males are even forced to adopt a submissive posture to tiny cubs. And, yet, DNA paternity testing found that "an astonishing 97 percent of cubs are fathered by immigrant males, even though they are outranked by the younger native males."
Gene for monogamy? (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/06/17/study_says_gene_encourages_monogamy/) - Public press article about interesting research recently published in Nature. "By transferring a single gene to the pleasure center of the naturally promiscuous male vole, researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta were able to make it happily monogamous, they say in a letter in the journal Nature."
