Catalyst’s Research Reports are unique resources for companies. Titles include:
Passport to Opportunity: US Women in Global Business; Women in Leadership,
A European Business Perspective; Breaking
Barriers, Women in Management in the UK. Catalyst also looks at issues related to women on US corporate Boards as well as women in management in law, finance, science, sales and high tech. 
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Familes As We Are. UN Consultant, Peace Corps Regional Director and journalist Perdita Huston spent over four years interviewing generations of families of all socioeconomic backgrounds in Bangladesh, Egypt, China, Thailand, Japan, Brazil, Uganda, Mali, Jordan, El Salvador and the United States. Besides traditional families, Hustons includes prostitutes who live together to provide childcare, and street children who band together for protection. Her interviews describe the profound issues that face families everywhere: imbalance of wealth, changing communities, gender inequality, childhood, environment, health, and education.
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Looking for Lovedu, A Woman’s Journey Through Africa documents American feminist Ann Jones’ drive from Morocco to South Africa to visit the legendary Lovedu, a tribe dedicated to “feminine” ideals, ruled by a great rainmaking queen. Exasperated by her mud-mired vehicle and crotchety traveling companion, Jones’ expedition exemplifies the polar opposite of Lovedu tribal values (compromise, cooperation, toleration and peace). You can’t help cheering her on.
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Safety and Security for Women Who Travel has valuable advice on how to stay centered in all situations, to enjoy the pleasures, not the pitfalls, of travel. The collection covers how to spot scam artists, choose safe travel companions, dress safely, employ trustworthy guides, and suggests things to pack (“pack rubber doorstops.”) The book was published in 1998 so does not address post-2001 travel.
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Women Travel, First-hand Accounts from More Than 60 Countries. Stories range from Sarah Beattie working to weld wheelchairs in Afghanistan —to Louisa Waugh’s drunken revelries and wild gallops across the steppes of Outer Mongolia. Includes a useful bibliography with reviews of women travel writers’ anthologies and books. (Women Travel was published in 1999 so you may have more recent favorites).
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Adventures in Good Company: The Complete Guide to Women’s Tours and Outdoor Trips is for women who dream of adventure but don't want to go it alone. It features organized travel opportunities for snorkeling, scuba diving, rock climbing and bicycling, but also lists trips for the less athletic: spa vacations, spiritual retreats, leadership development opportunities, programs for disabled women, for mothers traveling with children, lesbians, and older women. It was published 11 years ago, so double-check the details.
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Journey of One’s Own is a women’s travel classic. The first edition (1992) got lots of press; 68,000 copies sold; a third edition came out in 2003. Thalia Zepatos offers advice to women she hopes will follow in her footsteps. She traveled by camel across the Thar Desert, hitchhiked
along the Malay Peninsula, or trekked the high country of Nepal. She sees the "global sisterhood” as a positive, ready-made opportunity for women to interact in all cultures. Her practical suggestions include how to bargain and communicate without language.
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Female Buddhas. The role of the feminine is strong in Tibetan sacred art , in sharp contrast to most other Buddhist countries. Color illustrations are accompanied by stories, legends, mantras and mandalas.
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The Futures of Women, Scenarios for The 21st Century. The “official version of the future” promises that women are gliding toward equality. But the facts suggest that true equality may never happen. This fascinating book outlines four possible scenarios (backlash; equality; status quo; sexual separatism) By understanding the trends, women can shape the future they want for themselves and their children.
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The Essential Feminist Reader is the first anthology to include the full scope of feminist history. Prizewinning historian Estelle Freedman has selected five centuries of material from around the globe, including short works of fiction, drama, and political manifestos. Her cogent Introduction assesses the challenges facing feminism today.
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When I Was a Puerto Rican. In a triumphant coming of age novel, Esmeralda Santiago
writes lyrically about being a girl in rural Puerto Rico, then about being a bewildered, transplanted teenager in New York City. This is the first of her three-part memoir, the newest sequel, The Turkish Lover, was published in 2004.
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Expat, Women’s True Tales of Life Abroad, is an anthology of essays by 21 American women who lived (permanently or briefly) in other countries. As they put down roots in Bangladesh and Brazil, Turkey and Tokyo,
Indonesia and Italy, their experiences remind us that the visitor’s eagerness to move to a favorite country may result in something quite different from the dream.
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Cuba Diaries was written by Isadora Tattlin,
a Californian who lives wherever her European husband’s business takes them. When they moved to Cuba in the early 1990’s, she kept a journal. Though her family was provided with a mansion
and staff, and she gave a dinner party that included Fidel Castro, she knew that outside, store shelves were bare and beggars pleaded for soap.
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Go Girl! The Black Woman’s Book of Travel and Adventure includes travel stories by 52
contemporary black women, including Alice Walker in Bali, Maya Angelou in Africa, and
Gwendolyn Brooks in Russia. The resource list in the back of the book ranges from travel magazines to cruises for African American travelers. (The book was published in 1997, so the resource list is a bit out of date).
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The Single Woman’s Travel Guide is a
resource for women traveling alone. It
tells about discounts for singles, offers
tips about where to find romance, and
gives suggestions for single mothers
traveling with children.
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“As for this business of adventure being for men only…oh, moose poop! Women have been busy proving we can do anything
for decades now,” writes Jessica Maxwell
in the first chapter of Femme d’Adventure,
Travel Tales from Inner Montana to Outer
Mongolia, one of a popular line of books
from Adventura (Seal Press) that celebrates
the achievements and experiences of women adventurers, athletes, travelers and naturalists. The whole Adventura collection is tempting.
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Active Woman Vacation Guide: True Stories by Women Travelers, Plus 1001 Exciting Adventure Trips. True tales of women’s historic trips: "Tiger Hunt in India," 1848; "Bicycle Riding in Algeria," 1895; "Preparing for the Himalayas" 1996. Fifty-four organizations are listed that offer contemporary adventure trips for women of all ages, backgrounds, and states of fitness. This book was published 8 years ago so check the data.
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Tales of a Female Nomad. Since 1986, Ruth Gelman has had no permanent address and no possessions except those she can carry. She travels without a plan, guided by instinct and serendipity. She tells fascinating stories about living in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Israel, Ecuador and Indonesia.
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Inuit Women Artists. Three writers and nine artists who create jewelry, sculpture and graphics, illuminate the experience of Inuit women in the modern world.
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The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. Twenty-five years in the making, this unique sourcebook focuses on mythology, anthropology, religion, and sexuality. Its 1,350 entries include goddesses, witchcraft,  and meanings of sun, moon, earth, sea, time, and space; ideas of the soul, reincarnation, creation and doomsday; ancient and modern attitudes toward sex, prostitution, romance, rape, warfare, death and sin.
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