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Photography Tips
Needs some tips on taking good photos for your visual essay? Explore this guide on Digital Photography Basics.
Welcome! This guide has resources to support your work in the SOCI213 Gender and Society course.
Does Gender Inequality Exist?
As you're thinking about areas where gender inequality may exist, consider this report from the United Nations Foundation.
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50 of the World's Most Sexist Laws: A Snapshot of Gender Inequality
This report from the United Nations Foundation highlights 50 of the most egregious, absurd, and discriminatory examples of gender inequality in the world.
Start with an Overview
Explore reference databases that give overviews of topics to learn more about some of these issues.
Try different combinations of search terms about the area you're studying.
gender AND leadership
gender AND education
gender AND household
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Articles from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference books. Covers all major academic areas. An excellent place to start when learning the basics of any topic. Will help focus your topic, find keywords and people, and discover more in-depth books and articles. Images, audio and video files are included.
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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive reporting and analysis on “hot topics” in the news. Each single-themed report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist, footnoted and professionally fact checked. (Coverage: 1923 --)
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Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
The pros and cons of today's hottest social issues. Supports science, social studies, current events, business, and language arts classes. Allows 5 concurrent users.
Search DELCAT
Search the library catalog, DELCAT, for books and articles about your topic.
Dive Deeper
Explore some subject databases to dive deeper into the scholarly literature on discriminatory laws and policies.
Search Tips:
- Try a combination of terms. Connect separate concepts with the word AND
- women AND "sexual harassment" AND laws
- women AND "property rights" AND policy
- Search multiple synonyms or related words using OR
- women OR girls OR females
- Use quotation marks around phrases to search those words together
- e.g. "pink tax"
- Download to full text of the article to save it later. For articles not in the library's collection, you can request a free copy through Interlibrary Loan.
- Use the CITE button to copy the citation for the article.
Subject Databases
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PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Covers public policy issues and emphasizes factual and statistical information. Print and electronic journals in the social sciences are indexed with particular attention to articles that bear on public policy, administration and legislation. Business topics are covered, with emphasis on economic factors, industry surveys, business-societal interactions and similar issues, rather than details of business operations. (Coverage: 1915 --)
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Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database for womens studies and feminist research. A valuable resource for many disciplines, including sociology, history, international relations, humanities.
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GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to womens and gender issues. (Coverage: mid-1970s --)
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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. (Coverage: 1952 --)