^NCRW indicates NCRW member center
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Business and Professional Women's Foundation^NCRW
www.bpwusa.org
This website provides information on the following areas (priorities of the organization): work-life, workplace equity and civil rights. This information includes fact sheets and talking points, as well as 'how-to' guides for lobbying on these issues on the state level. The site also includes links to the voting records, along with contact information, of members of Congress.

Center for Policy Alternatives^NCRW
www.stateaction.org
This site provides information on women and the economy. Also provides various fact sheets which highlight different states' policies on issues affecting women. Issues highlighted include: child care, contraceptive equity, equal pay, family leave benefits, health care and reproductive health.

Center for Women Policy Studies^NCRW
www.centerwomenpolicy.org
This center's site includes various fact sheets and reports on various women's issues, including: Education and Welfare Reform, Reproductive Rights, Violence Against Women, Women and AIDS, and Women and the Workplace.

Institute for Women's Policy Research^NCRW
www.iwpr.org
This site provides information on women's public policy issues, focusing on several program areas in particular: poverty and welfare, family and work, employment and earnings, health and safety, and democracy and society. Information is provided on each topic, as well as public access to a variety of research briefs and reports.

International Center for Research on Women^NCRW
www.icrw.org
This site provides information on issues facing women from an international perspective. Program focuses include: HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, poverty reduction and social change. Information bulletins, briefs and reports are produced on these topics regularly and are readily available.

National Center for Policy Research on Women and Families^NCRW
www.center4policy.org
This site provides objective, research-based information that has been gathered and analyzed by the Center in order to make information more clearly available to the public, media and policy makers. Concerned with offering 'sound science and useful information' to women, the Center aims to 'provide information that is based on facts, not ideology.' The site provides answers to frequently asked health questions, and includes various items of interest in its news section.

National Committee on Pay Equity
www.pay-equity.org
This site provides a wealth of knowledge on the pay equity issues that are so central to working women's concerns. The site contains useful fact sheets and graphs, as well as information on what both individuals and businesses can do to remedy pay discrimination.

National Women's Law Center^NCRW
www.nwlc.org
This site provides useful information in the form of 'fact sheets,' reports and informative policy campaigns on the following issues: Athletics, Child Care and Early Education, Child and Family Support, Education, Employment, Health, Judges Courts and Women's Rights, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Harassment, Social Security, Tax and Women and the Military.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America^NCRW
www.ppfa.org
Up-to-date information for women on reproductive health issues, including information on current legal and political actions that both help and hinder women's reproductive health.

Politics and Science website
www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/about.htm
Politics and Science was developed as a result of a report, Politics and Science in the Bush Administration, requested by Representative Henry Waxman to assess the treatment of science and scientists in the Bush administration. The website is an ongoing record of the Bush Administration's interference with science.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute
www.agi-usa.org
The Institute provides in-depth research and analysis on reproductive health issues. Their website offers a variety of publications and statistical data that are easily accessible to the public.

The Women's Research and Education Institute^NCRW
www.wrei.org
This site provides information on women's issues to both members of Congress and the public at large. See this site for information on women and the military in particular, as the Institute has closely monitored the status of women in the armed forces since 1989.

Union of Concerned Scientists
www.ucsusa.org
This website includes the full text of the recent report released by the Union of Concerned Scientists, as well as provides links to activist responses to this issue (there is a link to 'Tell Congress to Investigate this Issue' and also to 'Report Abuses of Science').

United Nations Development Fund for Women
www.unifem.org
UNIFEM offers an international perspective on issues that affect all women. A variety of publications on numerous topics are freely available online. Statistics on women are also available.

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