Women's & Gender Studies

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• Career development
• Corporate welfare
• Employment discrimination
• Equal treatment
• Feminism
• Gender discrimination
• Gender equality
• Gender identity
• Gender role
• Gender-based violence
• Participation of women
• Position of women
• Rights of the individual
• Sexual discrimination
• Social rights
• Wom?n [for either woman OR women]
• Women empowerment
• Women's position
• Women's rights
• Work-life balance
• Workplace inclusion

Search for books by Decimal Dewey Classification

300 Social sciences

• 305 Social groups 
         305.4 Women
         305.42 Role in society, status

323 Civil and political rights

• 323.34 Civil and political rights - Women

331 Labor economics

• 331.4 Labor of women

341 Law of nations

• 341.48 Human rights law
         341.4858 Human rights law - Women

Search for books by EuroVoc term

Key

1. MT (MicroThesaurus): subset of a thesaurus, usually containing terms from a subject area narrower than the scope of the whole thesaurus;
2. NT (Narrower Term): used to indicate the relationship of the generic concept to a more specific one, together with an indication of the number of hierarchical steps between the broader term and each narrower term;
3. RT (Related Term): preferred label for a concept that has an associative relationship with the one in question.
    

12 Law

MT 1216 criminal law

• offence
  NT3 femicide
  NT2 sexual offence
  NT3 sexual violence
  NT3 sexual harassment
  NT3 cyber-bullying

MT 1236 rights and freedoms

• social rights 
  NT1 gender equality
• anti-discriminatory measure 
  NT1 protection of minorities
  NT1 sexual discrimination
  NT1 discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
• fundamentals rights
  NT1 sexual freedom
  NT1 women's rights
  NT1 sexual freedom

28 Social questions

MT 2826 social affairs

• social life 
  NT1 social participation
  NT2 participation of women 
• social policy 
  NT1 position of women 
          RT women's movement [0431]

eBook collections

Some subscription portals let you browse content through curated thematic lists or search by subject. Here are a few examples.

Cambridge Core Books

• Area Studies - Woman OR Women
• Sociology - Woman OR Women
• Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
• Gender and Power in the Premodern World
• Gender and Race in American History
• Gender in the Middle Ages
• Gender, Theology and Spirituality
• Women and Gender in German Studies

Perlego

• Discrimination & Race Relations
• Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Gender & the Law
• Gender Studies
• LGBT Studies
• Sexuality & Gender in Religion
• Women in Business
• Women in History

Oxford Scholarship Online

• Gender and Sexuality

SpringerLink eBooks

• Culture and Gender
• Development and Gender
• Feminism
• Gender Studies
• Gender, Sexuality and Law
• Gender and Economics
• Gender and Education
• Politics and Gender

Taylor & Francis eBooks

• Gender studies

Scopus

Scopus contains abstracts and citations from scientific literature and other qualified sources in the fields of science and technology, as well as the humanities and social sciences. Use it to easily find authoritative references and build your bibliographic lists. Here are a few sample searches.

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• KEY ( gender  AND studies ) 

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Web of Science 

The platform effortlessly retrieves a wide range of scientific resources, including articles, datasets, conference proceedings, books, preprints, and patents, as well as content from leading and authoritative journals, with a focus on subject areas. The database also offers a powerful tool for creating and managing citation lists for your bibliography. Here are a few examples.

Find documents by subject and remember to use the filters on the left or at the top of the page to refine or expand your search:

• Women's Studies (Web of Science Categories)

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Search journals by Decimal Dewey Classification

300 Social sciences

• 305 Social groups 
         305.4 Women
         305.42 Role in society, status

331 Labor economics

• 331.4 Labor of women

341 Law of nations

• 341.48 Human rights law

Search journals by subject (below are a few examples)

• Feminism
• Gender equality
• Gender identity
• Gender role
• Rights of the individual
• Sexual discrimination
• Social rights
• Wom?n [for either woman OR women]
• Women's rights

eJournal collections

Some subscription portals let you browse content through curated topic lists or search by subject. 

Among the largest collections:

Cambridge Core Journals

• Politics & Gender

Emerald eJournals Premier

• Gender studies (browse by subject)

SAGE Journals

• Gender Studies (browse by subject)

SpringerLink

• Gender Studies (browse by subject)

Free online portals

• Business | Gender Statistics Database
• Dataset - Gender Open Data
• European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - Sex, sexual orientation and gender
• European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - Equality, non-discrimination and racism
• Gender Statistics Database
• GenPORT
• Istat.it Gender
• LGBTData.com
• OECD Gender Data Portal
• Open Access Gender studies Journals
• Open Access in Gender Studies
• OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Gender Equality
• UN Statistics and Indicators on Women and Men
• UN Women Data Hub
• Wikigender - Data and Statistics
• World Bank Gender Data Portal

Subscribed portals

• Statista