Equality for women in the workplace is much more than equal pay. It includes acknowledgment and respect of women’s contributions, balance of power, equitable policies, diversity, and more women in leadership roles. The listed organizations offer resources and advocacy for women.

50/50 Women on Boards

50/50WOB is a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating gender balance and diversity on corporate boards. Their mission is to educate, advocate and collaborate to increase the number of women on boards and drive business imperative for corporate action, with women holding half of the corporate board seats of Russell 3000 index companies. Use their online directory to access the board compositions of the largest 3000 companies nationwide. Join the global conversation about board diversity.

A Better Balance (ABB)

ABB’s mission is to promote equality and expand choices for women and men at all income levels so they may care for their families without sacrificing economic security. ABB leverages the power of the law to ensure that no worker has to choose between job and family. Resources include WorkPlace Rights Hub a state by state guide to workplace laws that can help ensure you are free from discrimination; and Babygate which is a one-stop-shop for information about pregnancy and parenting at work.

Access to Capital Directory for Women Entrepreneurs

Bank of America and Seneca Women created this Directory so women could access hundreds of organizations providing funding.

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

AAUW works for workplace and economic equity including equal pay, salary negotiation and training, how to create a career, how to negotiate, how to get paid what you are worth and more. The AAUW’s mission is to advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Anita B

Anita B works with organizations and individuals to identify and overcome industry challenges, diversify workforces, and foster cultures where women technologists create impactful and lasting careers. Their mission is to connect, inspire, and guide women in computing, and organizations that view technology innovation as a strategic imperative.

Better Brave

Better Brave empowers you with the resources and tools necessary to navigate and address toxic workplaces. The organization offers a free online encyclopedia of workers’ rights and resources against harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

Catalyst

Catalyst is a global nonprofit working with some of the world’s most powerful CEOs and leading companies to build workplaces that work for women. Catalyst helps organizations accelerate progress for women at work with pioneering research, practical tools and proven solutions to remove barriers and drive change. They give companies and CEOs the trusted advice and expertise they need to drive workplace talent transformations in complex, global businesses.

Catalyst at Large

Suzanne Biegel is the founder of Catalyst At Large and a global leader in gender smart investing. The organization provides consultancy, speaking, facilitation in the arena of gender lens investing. This spans the intersection of investment, international development, philanthropy, and entrepreneurship.

Check Your Workplace

The goal of Check Your Workplace is to end workplace sexual harassment and assault. The organization provides workers with strategies and tools to drive change. Organize and Prepare; Assess and Take Action; Advocate and Support. Change the culture of the workplace.

Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions. EPI believes every working person deserves a good job with fair pay, affordable health care, and retirement security.

Elephant in the Valley

Elephant in the Valley was a collaborative effort of seven women in Silicon Valley. They focused on five areas: Feedback and Promotion, Unconscious Biases, Inclusion, Motherhood, and Harassment and Safety. They discovered that men were unaware of the issues that women faced in the workplace. They encourage you to read and discuss.

Employment Protection for Workers Who Are Pregnant or Nursing

The Women’s Bureau, an agency within the DOL, provides information and resources.

Equal Pay Today

The mission of Equal Pay Today, a project of Equal Rights Advocates, is to eradicate the long-standing gender wage gap impacting the economic security of women and families through an innovative collaboration of national, regional, and state-based women's legal advocacy and worker justice groups.

Global Repository of Income Dynamics

GRID is an international database that provides a wealth of micro statistics on income dynamics at the individual level.

Girls With Impact

Girls With Impact is a live, online entrepreneurship program made just for girls. There are programs for students, schools, employers and communities.

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 leading think tank in the United States applying quantitative and qualitative analysis of public policy through a gendered lens.

Lean In

Lean In helps women achieve their ambitions, advocates for better public policy and an equitable workplace.

National Association of Women Business Owners

NAWBO is the unified voice of over 10 million women-owned businesses in the U. S. The organization is a one-stop resource center for economic, social and political spheres of power.

National Center For Women and Information Technology

NCWIT equips change leaders for advancing women across the entire computing ecosystem. Inclusion changes what’s possible. Master the skills to lead change and reveal the potential in everyone. Membership levels include academic alliance; affinity alliance; k-12 alliance; workforce alliance. Resources include classroom resources, videos, regional initiatives and more.

She Should Run

She Should Run is a nonpartisan nonprofit promoting leadership and encouraging women to run for office. The organization offers a set of free online courses designed to help women from all backgrounds.

Tory Burch Foundation

Empowering women entrepreneurs. Resources. Access to capital. Fellows program. Initiativies.

TRUiC

TRUiC is a hub of entrepreneurial tools designed to help business owners succeed. The company provides free actionable information to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Times Up Legal defense Fund

Time’s Up Legal Defense supports individuals who have come forward to seek the justice they deserve. The Fund helps workers connect with lawyers and bring cases of workplace sexual harassment and related retaliation. The Fund is housed at and administered by the National Women’s Law Center.

The OpEd Project

The OpEd Project's mission is to increase the range of voices and quality of ideas we hear in the world. A starting goal is to increase the number of women thought leaders in key commentary forums to a tipping point. It envisions a world where the best ideas - regardless of where they come from - will have a chance to be heard, and to shape society and the world.

Purple Campaign

The mission of Purple Campaign is to address workplace harassment by implementing stronger corporate policies, establishing better laws and empowering people to create last change within their own workplaces and communities.

Spot

Spot empowers people-centered leaders to create more inclusive workplace cultures. Research shows that talking to a human is one of the biggest obstacles to reporting inappropriate behavior at work. That’s where Spot comes in. It’s an unbiased bot, available 24/7.

Ted@Work

Ted Talks for business are based on corporate feedback and Ted@Work to improve the way people, teams and organizations work. Content is aligned to priority topics of leadership, collaboration, emotional intelligence, change, digital transformation and more.

U S National Women Business Council

This government small business agency helps women entrepreneurs launch new businesses and compete in the marketplace. Programs include funding, contracting, resources, training, and access to credit and capital.

U S Small Business Administration

SBA helps women entrepreneurs launch new businesses and compete in the marketplace. Connect with the training and funding opportunities specifically for women.

WBC Collaborative

Women Business Collaborative is an alliance of over 70+ women’s organizations. Their mission is to accelerate the advancement of all women business leaders and to spotlight the need for gender, diversity, and pay parity in the workplace.

What Will it Take

What Will It Take is a media, collaboration, learning, and social engagement platform that inspires, connects, educates and engages women everywhere to advance in all levels of leadership and take action. What Will It Take acts as a connective tissue bringing together existing stakeholders and champions of women’s leadership across industries on a single platform to foster collaboration and coordination.

Women at Work/ Harvard Business Review Podcast Series

HBR presents conversations about the workplace, and women’s place in it.

Women Who Tech

Women Who Tech is a network of women led startups, investors, and allies working to increase diversity and funding in tech. Their infographic tells the story. For updates on grants programs and future Startup Challenges, sign up for their email updates.

Women’s Business Enterprise National Council

WBENC partners with fourteen regional partners to provide its world-class standard of certification to women-owned businesses throughout the country. It offers programming and resources to help businesses thrive. The organization advocates for women’s businesses in corporate and government supply chains.

The Worker’s Lab

The mission The Workers Lab is to invest in experiments and innovation that build power for working people in the 21st century.

Workplaces Respond

Workplaces Respond is creating workplaces free from domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking. Workplaces Respond provides resources, training, and technical assistance to employers, survivors, co-workers, and advocates to prevent and respond to domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking impacting the workplace.

Workplace Fairness

Workplace Fairness provides free access to comprehensive, unbiased information and workers’ rights without legal jargon.

World Inequality Database

The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.

Articles and Research Supporting Women’s Equality

The following articles and research focus on issues that affect women in the workplace. Topics include Benefits, Equal Pay, Harassment, Hiring and Research that provide facts to support efforts for change.