Library Guides: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Women & Gender Equality

Recommended Resources

A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose by Samra Zafar; Meg Masters
Call Number: Fennell/IAHS STACKS HV6626.23.C2 .Z34 2019

Publication Date: 2019
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Call Number: Fennell STACKS LC2330 .Y68 2013

Publication Date: 2013
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
Call Number: Fennell STACKS HV6561 .M54 2019

Publication Date: 2020
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
Call Number: Fennell STACKS HV6558 .N68 2018

Publication Date: 2018
Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman's Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia and Jihad by Farzana Hassan
Call Number: Fennell STACKS BP173.4 H37 2012

Publication Date: 2012

Brave Girls (Video Duration 1 hour 8 minutes)
This video explores the urgent questions about the empowerment of women in the developing world from the perspective of the women living those questions and facing the consequences of answering them.
Dreams of Equality: What Does Mainstream Feminism Promise (Video Duration 42 minutes)
Explores the complexities of feminism, gender and inequality today.
Into the Light (Video Duration 1 hour 19 minutes)
Features the liberating life stories and powerful words of inspiring Quebec women of African origin who’ve regained control over their lives after suffering from domestic violence.

Canadian Women's Foundation
Canada’s public foundation for gender justice and equality.
Global Gender Gap Report 2025
The 2025 Global Gender Gap Index shows that no economy has yet achieved full gender parity.
Women-Led Businesses Directory (Hamilton)
A directory of women-led businesses in Hamilton.
Women and Gender Equality: Government of Canada
Committed to advancing equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression through the inclusion of people of all genders.
The ‘me too’ Movement
A global, and survivor-led, movement against sexual violence,