Women's Rights Courses and Certifications

International Women's Health and Human Rights

5 ratings

This course focuses on women’s health and human rights issues from infancy through old age, including information about positive interventions relating to those issues. Learners are encouraged to interact with each other through interactive discussions.

• Coursera
• 14 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

International Women's Health and Human Rights

20 ratings at edX

This self-paced course provides an overview of women's health and human rights, beginning in infancy and childhood, then moving through adolescence, reproductive years and aging. We consider economic,

• edX
• 10 weeks, 1-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Four women’s rights activists discuss the feminist movement in the U.S., ways they’re creating change, and how you can join the fight for equality.

• MasterClass
• 2 hours 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories

32 ratings at edX

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Seeking Women’s Rights: Colonial Period to the Civil War

1 rating

Learn about the emergence of women's history and its impact on the study of history as a whole. Then, examine the experiences of women in Colonial America. We will learn the ways that women struggled

• edX
• 10 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Wage Work for Women Citizens: 1870-1920

1 rating

Departing from the Civil War years, examine how gender shaped women's work outside the home in the late 19th century. Explore efforts to affirm domesticity while providing women with paths to independ

• edX
• 10 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Global #MeToo Movement

The Global #MeToo Movement: How Social Media Propelled A Historic Movement and The Law Responded

• edX
• 5 weeks, 5-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018

This course begins with an examination of how the Cold War reinforced the ideals of the suburban, nuclear family and how these ideals impacted women's trajectory towards independence and equality, and

• edX
• 12 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Career Certificate

Women Have Always Worked

Explore the history of women in America and discover how historians have worked to uncover the place of women and gender in America’s past.

• edX
• 42 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $180.00
• 4 courses

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Combating Gender Stereotypes - లింగ వివక్షను ఎదురుకొనే ఏర్పాట్లు

Explore gender discrimination laws and constitutional provisions with legal experts to understand statutory measures for combating stereotypes and promoting gender justice.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

2 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course focuses on one example of democratic protest: the campaign to extend the vote to women in the UK. In the course you'll be introduced to two key figures in the campaign, Ada Nield ...

• OpenLearn
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Pilot Lecture: Susan B. Anthony and Suffragist Images

4 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

Examine how Susan B. Anthony became an icon of the women’s right movement and uncover the other people, events, and activities that led us to the 19th Amendment.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Women and Law in India

Explore how constitutional, personal, labour, and criminal laws shape women’s access to justice in India.

• Swayam
• Available until Oct 12, 2026
• Free Online Course

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Making of Indian Feminism - Part 1

1 rating

Explore the history of Indian feminism, challenging traditional narratives and uncovering women's roles in shaping India's past.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Nation and the Construction of 'Woman' in 19th Century Indian Nationalism

Explore the nationalist construction of women in 19th century India, examining its impact on gender frameworks and the centrality of women's issues in reform movements.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video