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Other

Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
The homepage of the National Women's History Project, this site includes links to suffrage history, timeline, a chat room, and student projects. Also information about the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention and national...
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Website
Other

Azizah Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a commercial site for Azizah, a magazine by and for Muslim women in North America. Site contains some news headlines, but you must subscribe in order to see magazine articles. Articles cover such timely topics as women's roles in...
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Website
Other

International Labour Organization: Bureau for Gender Equality

For Students 9th - 10th
This home from the International Labour Organization provides information on women's equality issues in labor. Find statistics and indicators on income, economic activity, unemployment, and more. Site also provides information on...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Debate: Is Cheerleading a Sport?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan in which students examine how women are perceived in society by preparing for, then debating, whether or not cheerleading should be considered a sport.
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Article
American Heart Association

Aha: Heart Disease and Stroke Encyclopedia: Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th
This article is provided by the American Heart Association and it covers a range of topics included under statistics. Heart disease and stroke statistics are provided, along with fact sheets and international cardiovascular disease...
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Website
Other

American Antiquarian Society: Exhibitions: A Woman's Work Is Never Done

For Students 9th - 10th
Images with accompanying narration on women's work from before the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution. Exhibit describes the domestic work that women did and continue to perform and also provides information on women...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Why Afghanistan's "Underground Girls" Skirt Tradition Live as Boys

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Supreme Court and Sex Discrimination

For Students 9th - 10th
From the responsibility of all work places to demonstrate no discrimination towards women in 1971 to Roe v. Wade in 1973, find the journey women took to the U.S. Supreme Court for sex discrimination.
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Article
Remedy Health Media

The Challenges of Being a Woman With a "Male Disease"

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on the challenges of being a woman with a disease considered by many to be a "man's disease", hemophilia and HIV/Aids. Excellent information on how the disease affects women and the issues around having the disease. Original...
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: American Women

For Students 9th - 10th
For students doing research work in Women's Studies, this site from the Library of Congress provides excellent resources. Students can search through the exhibits, collections, government publications, photographs, recorded sound, moving...
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Activity
Other

Ipu: Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
American women could run for election in 1788, but could not vote until 1920. This and other ironies are revealed in this timeline that shows the progression of women's political rights in countries from around the world.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes: Men & Women: How Do We Define the Roles of Men and Women?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "How do we define the roles of men and women?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account...
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Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Suffrage Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information on major contributors to suffrage, links to prohibition, and names of early organizations to back the movement. It contains links to related websites, as well as some excellent videos.
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Activity
Other

Twenties Fashion: Ladies' Fashions of the 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Women's fashions during the 1920s: less formal, legs shown, bobbed hair.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Notable American Female Social Reformers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will utilize the Internet to explore some of the more notable female social reformers in the United States from the mid-1850s to the early 1900s. Ideas for this lesson could include individual, group, or peer-to-peer...
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Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Unladylike2020

For Students 9th - 10th
These digital resources present the rich history of 26 little-known Progressive Era women, diverse in profession, race, ethnicity, geographical and class backgrounds, sexual orientation and gender expression, who broke barriers in...
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Website
Danuta Bois

Distinguished Women of Past and Present

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. Some were alive...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Afghanistan Unveiled (Lessons on Women's Roles in Afghanistan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Go directly to two lesson plans developed for a PBS documentary about the lives of women in Afghanistan filmed by Afghan journalism trainees. Use the lessons to have students examine women's roles under the Taliban, new opportunities for...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Sisters of '77: Women's Issues Then and Now (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two lessons that allow students to deepen their understanding of the issues addressed by the women's movement by comparing issues of the present day with those fought for in the 1970s. Best use of these lessons requires access to the PBS...
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Website
Other

University of New Mexico: Joy Harjo

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a quick description of Harjo's work from the University of New Mexico and about other writers who have influenced her. Includes a quote from Harjo, a small photo, & an audio clip of the author!
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Website
Other

King's College: Taliban

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of Taliban with a focus on women's rights.
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Handout
City University of New York

Chinese Cultural Studies: Women in China: Past and the Present

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the equality problems women in China face even though things have changed since 1949. Includes information on divorce.
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Website
New York University

Nyu: May Swenson Nature Poems Old & New

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief analysis of several Swenson poems dealing with the human life cycle, particularly death. The critic calls her style, "both abstract and concrete."
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Handout
New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Marie De France

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The New Advent contains biographical information about Marie de France. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of resource material dated around 1910.