Contains 632 entries that give descriptions of a wide array of contemporary social problems, along with lists of references for further research...

Contains articles on "issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation...

Focuses on technological events that opened scientific areas to women, biographies of women who made important contributions to technology, and organizations that aided women to enter specialties ranging from astrophysics and aerospace to telecommunications and textiles...

"Provides coverage on the best-known American women writers spanning from colonial days to the present, including biography, criticism, and bibliography for each; also includes lesser-known writers whose work is found in journals, letters, stories, and even hymns...

"Contains more than 20,000 brief biographical entries on women, including thousands of entries on non-U...

"Contains more than 1,450 key terms and their definitions" relating to "the way gender and information technology impact each other...

Contains entries which cover the major theories, research, people, and issues in contemporary gender studies...

"This encyclopedia has over one hundred and fifty biographical entries on specific women artists, writers, musicians, patrons, religious leaders, and medical practitioners...

Contains more than 400 biographical entries, including the childhood, education, achievements, and challenges of women activists from every part of the world...

Covers the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times...

Contains more than 200 entries on women's suffrage movements around the world...

Contains articles on "Jewish women anywhere, at any time" along with a glossary and other features...

Contains nearly 400 entries on historical, biological, cross-cultural, psychological, and sociological research on the explain the complexities of men's lives and the idea of modern manhood...

Contains "over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies...

Contains entries which deal "with the experiences of women in traditional wars between territorially based armies, but it also approaches war in a much broader sense...

Contains lengthy entries on the various roles women have played in higher education in the United States...

Contains more than 250 entries, mostly biographical sketches, on the contributions women have made to medicine from Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th century to the present day...