This page provides links to sites of interest to those
studying women and politics. They are categorised into other research
units and women's lobby groups (British, Irish and
foreign), parliaments and
government departments , and political parties in Britain
and Ireland, a few sites of individual
women politicians, and non-gender related think
tanks and political sites.
UK AND IRISH WOMEN'S RESEARCH UNITS AND LOBBY
GROUPS
A
State Apart (BBC site with section on women in Northern Ireland
public life)
ECPR
Standing Group on Women and Politics
Engender
Enlargement, Gender and Governance
Project, Queen's University
Equal Opportunities Commission
Equal Opportunities
in the Northern Ireland Civil Service - Eighth Report of the EO Unit
Equality Commission of Northern
Ireland
Fawcett Society
Gender
Statistics Users Group
National Women's Council of Ireland
Northern Ireland Women's European
Platform
Political Studies
Association Women & Politics Group
Vital Voices
Women's National Commission
Women's Resource & Development
Agency
Women Liberal Democrats
2008: The Year of Women and
the Vote
The Irish Feminist
Network - challenging gender inequality in Ireland
NON-UK AND IRISH WOMEN'S RESEARCH
UNITS AND LOBBY GROUPS
Center for American
Women and Politics
Center for Women's Global Leadership
Council of Europe's
site on gender equality
Equality Now
European Women's Lobby
European Women's Lobby 50/50 Campaign
European Database - Women
in Decision-making
Inter-Parliamentary Union
(data on women in world parliaments)
National Women's Council of Ireland
Pippa
Norris's homepage (John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)Worldwide
Guide to Women in Leadership
UN Women Watch
UN Development Fund for Women
UN Research and Training Institute
for the Advancement of Women
Women and Politics
Women's Human Rights Net
The International Knowledge Network
of Women in Politics (iknowpolitics)
Quota Project: Global
Database of Quotas for Women (global database by International IDEA,
Interparliamentary Union and Stockholm University on the implementation
and impact of quotas)
GOVERNMENTAL AND PARLIAMENTARY
SITES (UK, IRISH & FOREIGN)
Houses of the
Oireachtas
United Kingdom Parliament
Northern Ireland Assembly
Scottish Parliament
Welsh Assembly
Women's Unit, UK Government
National Development Plan
Gender Equality Unit (Ireland)
Office of Status of Women (Australia)
Status of Women Canada
POLITICAL PARTIES AND GROUPINGS
IN THE UK
Labour Party
(also see the Labour Women's
homepage and Emily's List UK)
Conservative Party
Liberal Democrat Party
Scottish National Party
Plaid Cymru
Ulster Unionist Party
SDLP
Democratic Unionist Party
Sinn Féin
Alliance Party
POLITICAL
PARTIES IN IRELAND
Fianna Fáil
Fine Gael
Labour Party
Progressive Democrat
Party
Sinn Féin
Green Party
INDIVIDIUAL WOMEN POLITICIANS'
SITES
Mary Banotti MEP
Anne Campbell MP (first British
MP to have a website)
Christine Chapman AM
Barbara Follett MP
Sandra Gidley MP
Mary Harney TD
Mary Hanafin TD
Patricia Hewitt MP
Ann Widdecombe MP
Jill Evans MEP
RELATED POLITICAL SITES
Ask
Aristotle (The Guardian's guide to MPs and constituencies)
BBC
Parliament
Boston College, Women's
Resource Center
Cross Bench Peers in the
House of Lords
Democratic Dialogue
EC Employment and Social Affairs - Women and Men in Decision Making
Epolitix.com
The Hansard Society
Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
Politico's Bookstore and Publishers
Social Science Information Gateway, University
of Bristol
Women2Win - Women's Organisation
within the British Conservative Party
Vacher Dod Publishing
OTHER RELATED SITES
Virtual
networking for Irish business women
Women's Parliamentary Radio
International Museum of Women
European Policy Action Centre on Violence
against Women
Wikigender
UK Political Info - non-partisan
resource on UK electoral politics
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