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Handbooks
- Collecting and interpreting qualitative materials [print]
- Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook [print]
- Doing visual ethnography: images, media and representation in research
- Finding data on women: a guide to major sources at Statistics Canada
- Handbook of feminist research: theory and praxis
- Handbook of gender and women's studies [print]
- Handbook of social research ethics
- Handbook of studies on men and masculinities [print]
- Handbook of the new sexuality studies
- Mixed methods research: merging theory with practice
- SAGE handbook of mixed methods in social & behavioral research
- SAGE handbook of social research methods
Maps and images
- ARTstor: A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data
Government and statistics
Canadian
Guides: Statistical resources: Data & statistics information
United States
- American Women - Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
- Fedstats - over 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government.
- US Census Bureau
- by Topic
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Women's Bureau
- Statistical Abstracts of the United States
- US Department of Labor
International
- SourceOECD - Click the Statistics tab, browse contents on the left side of the screen for available databases
- UN Women
- World Conferences on Women, including the Bejing Declaration and Platform for Action (Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995)
- Canada's Combined sixth and seventh periodic report (1999 to 2006)
- Conventions (selected)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW-OP)
- Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
- Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
- Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
- International Instruments and Treaty Bodies - legal instruments, conventions for human rights and gender equality
- Progress of the World’s Women (series)
- Country Reports - United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR)
- UNDATA (Formerly known as "UNSTATS - United Nations Statistical Common Database". - check "country profiles" and "topics" links. - comparative data from many UN sources.
- World Development Indicators - Direct access to more than 600 development indicators with time series for 208 countries from 1960. Can select multiple variables to create exportable reports, charts or maps. Go to the "Data" tab in the left column. You can look at "key indicators" for country or region
- United Nations - World Health Organization
- World Economic Forum
- The Global Gender Gap Report (annual)