Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

For information about women, their lives, and their work:
 

Collective Biographies of Women -- a website produced at the University of Virginia; helps locate biographical information in biographical anthologies

Encyclopedia Britannica Profiles: 300 Women Who Changed the World

Encyclopedia of Virginia        For example, a profile of Mary-Cooke Branch Munford

Female Nobel Prize Laureates

Biographies of Notable Women

Women in Science, Mathematics, and Technology