Guides: Women and Gender in the Middle East: Jordan

NGOs and Resources

Arab Women Organization in Jordan
The Arab Women Organization of Jordan (AWO) is a non-governmental and non-profit human rights’ organization dedicated to considering women’s rights as human rights.
UN Women: Jordan
UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.
International Foundation for Women's Empowerment
Our purpose is to empower women in the country and help them to successfully run for leadership positions, regardless of socio-economic status, political affiliation and religion, by identifying the challenges they face (survey) and putting an action plan to address those challenges.

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Abstracts and citations from over 1,700 journals in sociology, with additional abstracts from books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers. Coverage is from 1963 to the present.
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Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents covering a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.