GenderNet (http://www.worldbank.org/gender/) - From The World Bank Group, this site "seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development."
Tailhook '91 (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/navy/tailhook/) - PBS Frontline show on the Navy Tailhook Convention where "83 women and 7 men were assaulted during the three-day aviators' convention, according to a report by the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DOD)."
A sad yet utterly fascinating story is told in this Chicago Tribune series (2004) of young girls being forced to marry as early as seven years of age. The first link tells of such practices in Ethiopia. The second link is to the second and more hopeful installment of this story, covering efforts in Egypt to reverse the devastating effects of this practice. The third link is to a story covering early marriage in the U.S.Body Image
About-Face.org (http://about-face.org/) - "a San Francisco-based group, About-Face combats negative and distorted images of women" - site contains hundreds of images of women, negatively and positively portrayed, with commentary. Also a few research articles and "lots o' links" to body image and other topics.
"Dying to be Thin" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/) - PBS often has excellent companion Web sites for its programs, and this one for a Nova episode is no exception. Along with hearing from experts, reading personal stories, and finding links to other resources, you and your students can watch the entire television program online. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/program.html) (with QuickTime or RealPlayer plug-in)
Gene for monogamy? (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/06/17/study_says_gene_encourages_monogamy/) - Public press article about interesting research recently published in Nature. "By transferring a single gene to the pleasure center of the naturally promiscuous male vole, researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta were able to make it happily monogamous, they say in a letter in the journal Nature."
