Contemporary Women's Issues

Contemporary Women's Issues (FirstSearch) 1992 - present.     Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1992 - present.

Contemporary Women's Issues is a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. It includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. [Source: Contemporary Women's Issues, Thomson Gale online catalog; accessed June 8, 2006] Link to FirstSearch web user's guide.

Among the covered topics are:

• development
• education
• family life
• gender equity
• health
• human rights
• legal status
• lesbian concerns
• pay equity
• politics
• reproductive rights
• sociology
• violence and exploitation
• women
• the workplace