Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fighting for Gender and Racial Equality
In this lesson middle schoolers will examine the lives of key leaders and events in the fight for gender and racial equality at the turn of the 20th century. Through this inquiry study students will choose one of these leaders or events...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Cultural Change
Exciting lesson plan teaching students about the social change in women's role in society that allowed women the right to vote. Students will learn about the process women went through to gain the right to vote by exploring various...
Victorian Web
Brown University: Victorian Web: Victorian Theories of Sex and Sexuality
This site from The Victorian Web allows one to read about relationships between Victorian men and women. This article focuses on the sexual tensions and stereotypes prevalent during the Victorian Era, and defines the "roles" of men and...
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association: Transgender Individuals and Gender Identity
Find answers to questions concerning transgender issues. This addresses the definition, categories of transgender people, possible causes, the types of mental health problems and discrimination they may face, and the kinds of support...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Boys and Girls All Around the Town
In this experiment you will find out if boys and girls go to the same places, or if some places tend to have more of one gender over the other.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Women and Gender in Classical Athens
A lecture describing the marriage practices and legal status of women in Classical Athens.
Other
University of Central Florida: Avoiding Sexist Writing [Pdf]
One-pager that focuses on avoiding stereotypes of gender in writing. Offers suggestions on how to correct stereotypical writing including: using plural nouns, using second person nouns, and using no pronouns.
Other
Ithaca College: Aggression Lab
Summary of research that looks at potential gender bias in aggression studies. Describes a few of the studies and their outcomes.
National Institutes of Health
Pub Med: Men, Women, and Murder: Gender Specific Differences
This is an abstract of an article published in 1992 that examined crime data for 1976-1987. It looked at the differences between men and women in the roles of victim or offender in homicide cases.
Hartford Web Publishing
World History Archives: Hartford Web Publishing: Hispanic Women Energize Unions
This article tells of the growing number of women that belong to unions, especially Hispanic women, and how women are taking a bigger role in union leadership. (Published June 23, 2002)
University of Florida
U of Florida: Baldwin Library of Children's Literature
Digitization of Ruth Baldwin's 40-year collection of children's literature provides the user a glimpse into childhood memories. Literature primarily from the 19th and 20th century. Searching on a vast array of titles, such as Alice in...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters: Breaking Barriers
Discover the brilliant Bronte sisters, who defied the limited options for women in 19th-century Britain to create some of the most iconic novels in English literature, in these three video excerpts from To Walk Invisible: The Bronte...
Other
Binghamton: Appeal of Moral Reform to the Antebellum Northern Women
This site discusses how women were involved in the moral reform of the 1830s and 1840s. Links to original documents.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians the Middle Class
Throughout the course of the 19th century, the middle classes expanded rapidly. Those moving up the social scale had to learn new modes of behavior and ways of life. These articles research how this sector of society was reflected in the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hiapo (Tapa)
Gender roles played an important role in Polynesian art. Men's arts were often made of hard materials, such as wood, stone, or bone, while women's arts historically utilized soft materials, particularly fibers used to make mats and bark...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Harriet Jacobs: "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," 1861
Several chapters from a slave narrative by Harriet Jacobs examining her abuse, her integrity, and her eventual escape from brutality, all of which raise important questions about power, equality, and gender roles in the mid-nineteenth...
A&E Television
History.com: Women's history.com: Margaret Mead
A short biography of anthropologist Margaret Mead, focusing on her writings about how gender roles differ in societies around the world.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians the Novel
These articles answer the following questions about novels between 1832-1880: From Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell to George Eliot, how did the writers of this period use fantasy, realism, sensationalism, and...
University of Washington
University of Washington: Everday Life During the Depression
The culture in America was transformed by the Great Depression. How did the families cope? Read essays about topics such as changing advertising trends, prohibition, Anti-Semitism, gender equality, new family roles, and sports during the...
Able Media
Women in the Oikos: The Stranger Within
An analysis which examines the role of women in the Greek family as seen in many of the Greek plays produced during the classical period of Greek history. The author argues that Greek men had little reason to trust their wives since...
Other
Differences How Boys and Girls Solve Math Problems
Gives overview of study which evaluated first graders for differences in math ability and the results.
Library of Congress
Loc: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
An exhibition from the Library of Congress about cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead with interesting insights on how she used her anthropological skills to explore the complexities of living in a diverse world.
Other
Manitoba Historical Society: Maternal Feminism
This site provides information about maternal feminism, with links to related topics.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: The Randolphs
Learn about the Randolphs, a wealthy family of influence in Colonial America.