- Entry
- Reader's guide
- Entries A-Z
- Subject index
Urbanization, as Women's Issue
Because of the rapid transition from rural to urban living and from farm labor to industry-driven economies over the past 30 years, more than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. This process, known as urbanization, manifests itself ...
- Activism in Theory and Practice
- ABANTU (Africa)
- African Gender Institute
- All-China Women's Federation
- Arab Women's Solidarity Association (AWSA)
- Association of Tunisian Women for Research and Development (AFTURD)
- B.a.B.e. (Be Active, Be Emancipated)
- BEADS for Education
- Bicameral Women's Caucus
- Center for Bio-Ethical Reform
- Chicana Labor Rights Activism
- Child Marriage, Activism Against
- Concerned Women for America
- Conservative Women's Organisation
- Daughters of Mumbi
- Disability Rights Activism (Women in)
- Feminism, Arab
- Feminism, French
- Gendercide
- Give an Hour
- HEAL Africa
- Human Rights Activism
- Human Trafficking Activism
- Immigrant Rights, as Women's Issue
- International Women's Democracy Center (IWDC)
- Jerusalem Center for Women
- Labor Unions (Women's Participation in)
- Mama Cash
- Maputo Protocol
- Mexican Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (DDESER)
- National Women's Council of Ireland
- National Women's Service (Chile)
- Penduka
- Protests, Women-Led
- Reach All Women in War
- Rebecca Project, The
- Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights
- Roundtable for Women in Foodservice (RWF)
- Sewing for Peace
- Shared Hope International
- Sister Namibia
- Sisters in the Building Trades (U.S.)
- Sixth Clan
- SlutWalks (Toronto)
- Tea Party Movement, U.S. (Women's Involvement in)
- Tostan
- Traffick911
- Veteran Feminists of America
- Vietnam Women's Union
- Vital Voices
- VOICES of Conservative Women
- Women for Women International
- Women Living Under Muslim Laws Solidarity Network
- Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace
- Women2Drive (Saudi Arabia)
- World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report (2005)
- Signal Biographies
- Arts
- Ruined
- XXX LIVE NUDE GIRLS!!!
- American Folk Music (Women in)
- Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID)
- Bead for Life
- Belly Dance
- Ceramics (Women in)
- Chefs, Female
- Fashion Design (Women in)
- Fashion Design in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Feminist Performance Art
- Gund Kwok Asian Women's Lion & Dragon Dance Troupe
- Hijabistas
- Indie Music (Women in)
- International Alliance for Women in Music
- International Women's Brass Conference
- Jazz (Women in)
- Little Dragon
- Magicians and Illusionists, Female
- NISAA FM
- Opera (Women in)
- Orchestras, Gender Bias in
- Photojournalism (Women in)
- Playwrights, Female
- Poets, Female, Worldwide
- Radio (Women in)
- Radio Monalisa
- Screenwriters, Female
- Sculpture (Women in)
- Singers/Songwriters, Female
- Street Art (Women in)
- Toxic Titties
- Web Design (Women in)
- Worldwide Women Artists (Internet Collective)
- Signal Biographies
- Évora, Cesária
- Antoni, Janine
- Björk
- Case, Neko
- Castro, Panmela
- Chanin, Natalie
- Danticat, Edwidge
- Dove, Rita
- Elliott, Missy
- Ferguson, Gogo
- Gates, Celia
- Hadid, Zaha
- Hamilton, Vijali
- Higdon, Jennifer
- Johnson, Betsey
- Kelly, Mary
- Kim, Miru
- Kimsooja
- Krauss, Alison
- Levy, Andrea
- Mehta, Deepa
- Minashita, Kiriu
- Noël, Kettly
- Pic, Anne-Sophie
- Roth, Gabrielle
- Seronde, Adele
- Sinclair, Stephanie
- Sussman, Deborah
- Sy, Oumou
- Tipton, Jennifer
- Traoré, Rokia
- Walsh, Fran
- Walshe, Jennifer
- Xaba, Nelisiwe
- Business, Commerce, and Economics
- Ashoka's Changemakers
- Barriers to Women Scientists in Entrepreneurship
- China Association of Women Entrepreneurs
- Community-Based Grants for Women in Male-Dominated Occupations
- Finance (Women in)
- Global Fund for Women
- Global Gender Gap Report 2011
- Goldman Sachs “10,000 Women” Project
- Headscarves on Women in Secular Turkey
- Informal Economy (Women in)
- Ladies Who Launch
- Mexican Association of Women Entrepreneurs (AMMJE)
- Microenterprise Development
- Middle East and North Africa Businesswomen's Network (MENA BWN)
- Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology
- Pakistan Federation of Business and Professional Women
- Social Entrepreneurship
- TiE Stree Shakti (TSS)
- Travel and Tourism (Women in)
- Women 2.0
- Women Chefs & Restaurateurs (WCR)
- Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press
- Signal Biographies
- Countries
- Education
- Academic Medicine (Women in)
- Academy for Girls, the Kakenya Center for Excellence
- Anthropology (Women in)
- Archaeology (Women in)
- Gap Year
- Geography (Women in)
- Girls Education Movement (Africa)
- Higher Education, Diversity Issues in
- Home Schooling
- Illiteracy, as Women's Issue
- Institute for Human and Community Development (Haiti)
- Leadership, Under-Representation of Women in International Educational
- National Council of the Roma National Minority (Serbia)
- Parikrma Humanity Foundation (India)
- Philosophy (Women in)
- Religion, Limiting Effects on Education for Girls
- Social Work (Women in)
- Sociology (Women in)
- Taliban and Education for Girls
- Teach for America
- TEDWomen Conference
- U.S.-Europe Workshop on Research on Gender and Diversity in Engineering Education
- Veerni Project
- Signal Biographies
- Environment
- Agriculture/Food Security
- Bead for Life
- Craftivism
- Ecology (Women in)
- Environmental Toxins, Women's Health and
- Forestry (Women in)
- International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
- Jane Jacobs Medal
- National Coordinating Committee of Peasant Women (KONAFAP)
- Natural Disasters, Impact on Women
- Oceanography/Marine Biology (Women in)
- Reproductive Health, Environmental Effects on
- Trash Collection and Recycling, as Women's Issue
- Trash Fashion Development for Women (as Economic Incentive)
- Urbanization, as Women's Issue
- Women's Hands Network (Red Por Manos de Mujer)
- Signal Biographies
- Government/Law and Justice
- Ferguson v. City of Charleston
- Afghan All Woman Police Force
- Customary Laws, Impact on Women
- Equality Ministry, Spanish
- Fetal Homicide Laws
- Gleichstellungspolitik (Gender Equality Politics in Germany)
- Guns and Gun Use
- Heads of State, Female
- International Association of Women Judges
- International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2009
- International Violence Against Women Act
- Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
- National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP)
- National Women's Law Center (U.S.)
- Peace Building/Conflict Resolution (Women in)
- Pink Pistols
- Politicians’ Wives (Changing Roles)
- Postcolonialism, Impact on Women
- Representation of Women in Government, International
- Representation of Women in Government, U.S.
- Romanian Witches
- Tea Party Movement, U.S. (Women's Involvement in)
- Tribal Leaders, Women as (U.S.)
- United Nations Resolution 1888
- Violence Associated With Political Rhetoric
- Women in Government Foundation
- Women in Local Government Strategy Group (Australia)
- Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (Canada)
- Signal Biographies
- Arabena, Kerry
- Bachmann, Michele
- Bligh, Anna
- Diogo, Luisa
- Giffords, Gabrielle
- Gillard, Julia
- Kagan, Elena
- Knox, Amanda
- Lagarde, Christine
- Middleton, Kate
- Mother Antonia
- Murkowski, Lisa
- O'Donnell, Christine
- Olson, Nina E.
- Persad-Bissessar, Kamla
- Rouseff, “Iron Lady” Dilma
- Shinawatra, Yingluck
- Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson
- Vega, Maria Teresa Fernández de la
- Vizenor, Erma J.
- von der Leyen, Ursula
- Wu Qing
- Health: Mental and Physical
- No Woman, No Cry
- Abortion Laws, U.S.
- ARV Vaginal Ring
- Birth Defects
- Breast Augmentation
- Breast Cancer, Targeted Therapies for
- Broken Brown Egg, The
- Child Malnutrition, as Women's Issue
- Childhood Obesity, as a Women's Issue (or Activism Against)
- Cognitive Impairment in Women, Age-Related
- ellaOne
- Housing, Effects on Women's Health (Canada)
- Infant Mortality Rate in Native Hawaiians
- International Organization for Women and Development (IOWD)
- International Women's Health Coalition
- Israel Health Advancement for Women (ISHA)
- Lupus and U.S. Minority Women
- Mamawasis (Peru)
- Maternal Mortality
- Mental Illness: Biases in Diagnosis
- Miscarriage, Artificial (China)
- Portugal: Legalized Abortion
- Pregnancy-Related Deaths in African American Women
- Public Health (Women in)
- Rape, Documenting in Africa
- Rape-aXe
- Reproductive Health Issues
- Sappho's Girls (Sappho'nun Kizlari)
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Disparities in Testing
- Silent Birth (Scientology)
- Transgenders and Suicide
- Uganda Ban on Female Genital Mutilation (2009)
- Vaginal Microbicide Gel
- Vaginal Rejuvenation Surgery
- Vesicovaginal Fistula
- Women's Health Project (Ireland)
- Signal Biographies
- Media/Popular Culture
- Big Fat Gypsy Weddings (TV Show)
- Desperate Housewives
- Mslexia (British Magazine)
- Sex and the City
- Boobquake and Brainquake
- Brazilian Bikini Wax
- Egyptian Women's Media Issues
- Facebook, Women's Use of
- Human Hair Weaving
- Japanese Street Fashion
- Love Dolls
- Models, Female
- Online News (Women in)
- Pop Music and Young Girls
- Pure Fashion: A Celebration of Style and Virtue
- Romance Television Shows, French
- Skin Bleaching
- Tanning
- Tattoos
- Tweens and Tween Fashion
- Vampires (and Twilight Phenomenon)
- Violence Against Women on the Internet
- Signal Biographies
- Religion
- Signal Biographies
- Science and Technology
- Signal Biographies
- Sexualities
- Signal Biographies
- Sports and Recreation
- Signal Biographies
- War and Conflict
- Signal Biographies
- Women's Lives
- Bullying
- Dowry Deaths
- First Blood Celebrations
- Girl Cliques (“Queen Bees”)
- Infidelity
- International Center for Research on Women
- Iran, Marriage in (Age of Women)
- Marriage Rates, Compared Internationally
- Migrant Women
- Military/Army Family Issues (U.S.)
- Millennial Generation
- Motherhood
- Obedient Wives Club (Malaysia)
- Refugee Women
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Self-Immolation Among Child Brides (Afghanistan and India)
- Surrogate Mothers
- Watering of the Girls (Hungary)
- Women's Financial Literacy Initiative
- Signal Biographies
167358- Loading...
Get a 30 day FREE TRIAL
-
Watch videos from a variety of sources bringing classroom topics to life -
Read modern, diverse business cases
-
Explore hundreds of books and reference titles
Add to list closeHave you created a personal profile? Login or create a profile so that you can save clips, playlists and searches
Read next in SAGE Reference
More like this in SAGE Knowledge
SAGE Recommends
We found other relevant content for you on other SAGE platforms.
link backcloseWant to try SAGE Knowledge first?Sign up for a free trial and experience all SAGE Knowledge has to offer.
start free 30 day trialYou must have a valid academic email address to sign up.
closeWith institutional access I can:Want to try SAGE Knowledge first?- View or download all content my institution has access to
Sign up for a free trial and experience all SAGE Knowledge has to offer.
start free 30 day trialYou must have a valid academic email address to sign up.
