The databases listed below will lead you to journal articles on the women and gender issues.
A good starting point: Gender Studies.
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If your topic deals with a particular subject area (business, music, etc.), you may also find information on gender and women's issues in subject specific databases--for example, Business Source Complete, CINAHL (health) Education Full-Text, EconLit,or Music Index.
Subjects covered include: anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology, sociology.
Covers the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and more. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,200 periodicals in dozens of languages.
Almost all of the library's databases will allow you to limit to academic/scholarly, or peer-reviewed journals. Limiting to academic/scholarly, however, is imperfect: You'll also retrieve professional journals. Some professors consider these scholarly; others don't.
Ask to clarify.
How can you tell what it is you found? You'll need to look for clues. None of these clues may be consistently applied--taken together, however, they can get you close.
Still unsure? Check Ulrich's Periodicals Directory for the definitive word on whether your source is scholarly or general.
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