WOMEN'S HEALTH MATTERS!!

There is a wonderful new resource available to find information on women's health. Since it is from the New Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, it has a Canadian focus, but many of the sites are good for anywhere. Its brand new product is a toolkit "to assist the many women who have asked us for help in navigating the often confusing maze of health information on the Web." Titled Women Wading Through the Web, it can be downloaded for free. The Toolkit has chapters on "How to use the Internet to search for health information," "How to judge the quality of a website," "how to interpret medical research," and "how to understand media and web-based health information." There are also many links to recommended resources.

Also on the site are feature articles, quick links, discussion groups, answer center, and more.

URLs:
Toolkit: http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/toolkit/
general site: http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/

NEW BLOG FOR WOMEN LAWYERS

Ms. ND: Changing the Face of the Legal Profession

“Concerned by the rates at which women opt out of the legal profession, the lack of representation of women in the highest courts and echelons of the legal community, and the role of gender in the progression of many women’s legal careers, a group of female law students from Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley), Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard, NYU, Stanford, UCLA, UT Austin, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and Yale came together and created Ms. JD in March 2006. Serving women in law school and the legal profession, Ms. JD is an online community that provides a forum for dialogue and networking among women lawyers and aspiring lawyers.” Ms. JD launched at a national conference co-hosted by Yale Law School Women on March 31, 2007. The Chairwoman of the Board and President is Elizabeth Pederson, a third-year law student at Stanford Law School.

URL: http://ms-jd.org/