GWS Archives, Libraries, Research Centers, and Special Collections – United States

• Bibliography: Women’s Centers in U.S. Higher Education by Amber L. Vlasnik (2014)
• Catalyst is a nonprofit research and advisory organization working to advance women in business and the professions.
• Jewish Women’s Archive includes exhibits on Rebecca Gratz, Lillian Wald, Molly Picon, Emma Lazarus, Hannah Greenbaum Solomon, Justine Wise Polier and others.
• The Women Artists Archives National Directory (WAAND) is an innovative web directory to U.S. archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists active in the U.S. since 1945.
• The National Council for Research on Women (U.S.) site includes information about other NCRW publications, initiatives, and conferences.
• National Research Center for Women & Families promotes the health and safety of women, children, and families
• National Women’s Law Center works to get new laws on the books and enforced; litigates ground-breaking cases in state and federal courts, and educates the public about ways to make the law and public policies work for women
• Women’s Research and Education Institute‘s mission is to inform and help shape policies around women’s issues.
• Families and Work Institute provides research on the changing family, workplace, and community.

Arizona

• Southwest Institute for Research on Women, housed at the University of Arizona; covers 30 campuses in the Southwest.

California

• Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California
• Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Hastings College of Law, University of California, supports women asylum-seekers fleeing gender related harm
• Center for Research on Education, Gender and Sexuality, San Francisco State
• Center for Research on Women & Social Justice, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Center for the Study of Women, University of California Los Angeles
• Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, in the School of Theatre, Television and Film at San Diego State
• Chicana/Latina Research Center, University of California Davis
• The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University focuses on women and gender in science, engineering, technology, mathematics, and business

Florida

• Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research, University of Florida

Georgia

• Center for the Study of Women, Science, & Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Women’s Research & Resource Center, Spelman College

Illinois

• Center for Research on Women and Gender, the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (CWLU) Herstory Project offers access to original documents on the founding of the CWLU, as well as resources for feminist activists today – a huge online collection of documents, photos, and more
• Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, Loyola University

Indiana

• Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame
• Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
• Susan Bulkeley Butler Women’s Archives, Purdue University

Iowa

• Archives of Women’s Political Communication, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University
• Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University, includes the Archives of Women’s Political Communication
• Women in Science and Engineering Archives, Iowa State University

Louisiana

• Newcomb College Institute, educating undergraduate women for leadership in the 21st century – Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Massachusetts

• Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library for the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
• Brandeis University has a Women’s Studies Research Center and is also the home of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. 614 HBI E-Zine is the Institute’s newsletter.
• Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons School of Management, Simmons College
• Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
• Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, housed on the Mount Holyoke campus, is co-sponsored by Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts.
• Smith College Special Collections are internationally recognized repositories of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women’s history, with over 6,000 linear feet of material in manuscript, print, and audio- visual formats.
• The Wellesley Centers for Women include the Center for Research on Women and the Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies, which has done theoretical work on women’s psychological development. The Centers are at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Michigan

• University of Michigan
  • Center for the Education of Women – one of its projects is the National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife.
  • Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Minnesota

• University of Minnesota
  • Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute. One of its projects produces case studies in women and public policy.
  • Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport

Mississippi

• University of Mississippi Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies.

New Jersey

• Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  • Center for American Women and Politics studies women office holders, voting patterns, and more.
  • Center for Women’s Global Leadership; its digitized poster collection from women’s rights organizations.

New Mexico

• Southwest Women’s Law Center, Albuquerque, NM

New York

• Cornell Center for Women, Justice, Economy & Technology (Cornell Women JET), Cornell University Law School
• Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University
• Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Rochester
• University at Albany, SUNY
  • Center for Women in Government and Civil Society
  • Institute for Research on Women
• Women of Color Policy Network, affiliate of the Research Center for Leadership in Action, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

North Carolina

• The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture in Duke’s Rubenstein Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.

Oregon

• Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

Pennsylvania

• University of Pennsylvania
  • Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women
  • Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health (in the School of Medicine)

Rhode Island

• Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University

Tennessee

• Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee

Texas

• Archives for Research on Women and Gender (ARWG) project, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Center for Research on Women with Disabilities, Baylor College of Medicine
• Institute for Women’s Health, Texas Woman’s University

Virginia

• International Archive of Women in Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Washington, D.C.

• African American Women’s Institute, Howard University
• Center for Women Policy Studies is an independent feminist policy research and advocacy institution located in Washington, DC.
• Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington, DC is “is the leading think tank in the U.S. focusing primarily on domestic women’s issues”. Publishes IWPR Quarterly Newsletter and Research News Reporter.
• International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC, researches issues of gender and development.
• Women and Politics Institute, School of Public Affairs, American University

Wisconsin

• Research Center for Women and Girls, Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Center for Women’s Health and Women’s Health Research
  • Center for Research on Gender and Women
  • Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian