Useful starting point for exploring radical Black women from Africa and the wider diaspora

New (2020) ranking of states based on data collected from various existing sources covering: heads of state or government, national cabinets, national legislatures, national legislature candidates, and local legislatures

Global database of gender quotas in national political systems, from IDEA and others.

Published since 2006 (use Google to see reports), the political empowerment component is a composite of: representation in parliament, representation at ministerial level, and women heads of state

News on conferences and events; fact files on women's political involvement in specific countries and online discussion forums. It also contains a large online library of full text reports, papers and handbooks.

Attempt to track the representation & status of women in political science associations around the world.

Includes a variable for proportion of seats held by women in local government

V-Dem has women's political participation index (from 1789) for countries, measured by "women’s descriptive representation in the legislature and an equal share in the overall distribution of power"

Useful database that focuses on research in political science by female academics

Project based at Oxford University (2020-2022) to reveal & assert the role of women in the male dominated sphere of IR

WARD includes information on more than 300 rebel movements active between 1964 and 2014. It includes multiple indicators that capture the presence and prevalence of female fighters in an armed group

Database maintained by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which also compiles the Women in Politics Bibliographic Database containing bibliographic references to books, reports and journal articles on all aspects of women's participation in political life worldwide. (last update 2015).

Stats & publications covering the history of women in the US Congress