Complied below are specific resources looking at topics related to gender & sexuality studies. Popular data sources such as The Pew Research Center, Census Data, Human Rights Campaign, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) are searchable by theme/topic.
Compiled by the House Clerk, various tables about women in Congress. Includes a full list of all female representatives and senators by Congress and by state; committee assignments (by committee); female committee chairs; women of color; and more. 1917-present.
Research center at Rutgers providing scholarly research and current data about American women’s participation in politics and public life, including figures on turnout, candidate recruitment, women of color, and public office holders.
Links to a few compilations of major surveys with questions about LGBT orientation and identity.
ICPSR data archive providing datasets for the comparative analysis of issues affecting various minority populations in the United States, including LGBT populations.
List of data sources from our Data and Statistics catalog with a focus on sexual attitudes and behavior. As many of these come from ICPSR, there's a fair amount of overlap with the RCMD.
Datasets hosted in the Murray Research Archive of Harvard University on the topic of sexuality.
LGBTData.com LGBTData.com serves as a no-cost, open-access clearinghouse for the collection of sexual orientation & gender identity data and measures.
