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CEDAW: The Women's Bill of Rights

UnWomen, a global champion for women, was established to accelerate progress on meeting the needs of women worldwide, and is dedicated to gender equality all women. The organization's Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination is considered The women's human rights treaty. It was ratified by 189 countries. Their infographic defines the meaning of discrimination against women and its many forms.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

CBpp is a nonpartisan research and policy institute. It pursues federal and state policies designed both to reduce poverty and inequality, and to restore fiscal responsibility in equitable and effective ways.

Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy

The Consortium is comprised of experts committed to advancing evidence-based gun violence prevention policies. The group includes the nation’s leading researchers and academics with expertise at the intersection of gun violence prevention and public health, law, behavioral health, medicine, criminology and related fields.

CFR Women’s Power Index

The Council on Foreign Relations Women’s Power Index ranks 193 U N member states on their progress toward gender parity in political participation.

Criterion Institute

Criterion Institute works with social change-makers to equip leaders to engage systems of finance, find new strategies, and focus on using finance as a tool to effect change.

Digital Commons Network

Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Earn

A nationwide network of research, policy, and public engagement organizations fighting, state by state, for an economy that works for people. It is affiliated with the Economic Policy Institute.

Economic Policy Institute

The mission of EPI is to inform and empower individuals to seek solutions that ensure broadly shared prosperity and opportunity.

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security is engaged in research on women’s role in peace and security efforts, economic empowerment, countering violent extremism. The Women, Peace and Security Index offers a comprehensive measure of women’s well-being in over 150 countries. The organization amplifies the voices of women peace builders through the Seeking Peace podcast, social media, newsletter, and more.

GIWPS: The Best and Worst States To Be A Woman in 2020

The Georgetown Institute for Women: The U. S. Women’s Peace and Security Index.

Harvard Gender Action Portal

Gender Action Portal is a resource created by the Harvard Women and Policy Program. It is committed to intersectionality as a core guiding principle of gender policy research.

Harvard carr center for human rights policy

The Harvard Carr Center for human rights research and policy.

Harvard Violence Against Women Database

Readings, Law, Research, Publications

Institute for Women’s Policy Research

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research conducts and communicates research to inspire public dialogue, shape policy, and improve the lives and opportunities of women of diverse backgrounds, circumstances and experiences. They are a think tank in the United States applying quantitative and qualitative analysis of public policy through a gendered lens.

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

ITEP conducts analyses of taxation and economic proposals, and provides data-driven recommendations to shape equitable and sustainable tax systems.

ITEP Who Pays? 6th Edition

State-by-State data and ITEP inequality index map.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives. Their goal is to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and well-being for all. Together with governments, policy makers and citizens, they work on establishing international norms and finding evidence-based solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges.

Our World Data

The mission of the nonprofit organization Our World Data is to publish the research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problem.

Plan International/ Full Report: The State of Gender Equality for U.S. Adolescents

Plan USA research on gender equality for US adolescents provides insight for policy makers and others on how children are internalizing inequality.

Urban Institute

Urban Institute builds evidence, shares research, and identifies solutions for policy and practice. It is a nonprofit research organization that works to strengthen communities, by offering solutions through economic and social policy research.

Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)

Discriminatory social institutions are defined as the formal and informal laws, attitudes and practices that restrict women’s and girls’ access to rights, justice and empowerment opportunities. These are captured in a multi-faceted approach by SIGI’s variables that combine qualitative and quantitative data, taking into account both the de jure and de facto discrimination of social institutions, through information on laws, attitudes and practices. The United States is included in the data.

Status of Women in the States

The Status of Women in the States provides data on women’s progress in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the United States overall. The data can be used to raise awareness, improve policies, and promote women’s equality.

UN Women

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, it was established to accelerate progress and meet their needs.

Unicef/ for every child

UNICEF Data monitors the situation of children and women with data and profiles for every country.

U S DOL Women’s Bureau

The Women’s Bureau mission is to develop polices and standards and conduct inquires to safeguard the interests of working women; advocate for their equality and economic security.

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Washington Center for Equitable Growth is a nonprofit research organization dedicated to advancing evidence-based ideas and policies that promote strong, stable and broad-based economic growth.

Wikigender

Wikigender is a global online collaborative platform linking policymakers and experts from both developed and developing countries to find solutions to advance gender equality. It provides a centralized space for knowledge exchange on key emerging issues, with a strong focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Women, Business and the Law

Women, Business and the Law is a World Bank Group project collecting data on the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity.

Women, Business and the Law 2020

This study tracks how the law affects women at various stages in their lives, from the basics of transportation to the challenges of starting a job and getting a pension. It uses eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law: mobility, workplace, pay, marriage, parenthood, entrepreneurship, assets, and pension.

Women’s Forum / Daring Circles Women & Stem

The Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society’s goal is to increase the representation, leadership and impact of women with STEM skills at all stages of the pipeline from school to the boardroom.

Women’s Forum for the Economy

Women’s Forum 2021 barometer on gender equity in G20 countries.

Women’s Media Center (WMC)

The WMC is a progressive, nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to raise the visibility, viability and decision-making power of women and girls in media and, thereby, ensuring that their stories get told and their voices are heard. To reach those necessary goals, they strategically use an array of interconnected channels and platforms to transform not only the media landscape but also a culture in which women’s and girls’ voices, stories, experiences and images are neither sufficiently amplified nor placed on par with the voices, stories, experiences and images of men and boys.

WomanStats

The WomanStats Project is the largest cross national compilation of data, statistics, and maps on the status of women worldwide that is organized by country. It was initiated by a team of approximately twelve undergraduate research assistants, seven graduate research assistants, thirteen principal investigators, and over 120 former student assistants. They are dedicated to the continual expansion of the WomanStats Database, as well as the pursuit of our research agenda assessing the relationship between the situation and security of women, and the dynamics between security, stability, and the behavior of the state.