USEFUL FEATURES - SORTING RESULTS

GenderWatch presents the results of searches in order of "relevance" determined by the number of times the search term occurs in the article, in addition to other factors. Sometimes you may want to browse through the results differently, and GenderWatch allows you to re-sort the results, by clicking on sort and changing the sort order.

For example, you might want to view the most recently published articles first. If you want to locate articles in GenderWatch about the current condition of women in Afghanistan, you don't want to have to plough through reams of information about conditions under rule by the Taliban (which ended in 2001) or earlier regimes. Instead, you would do a Words-in-Title or Words-in-Article search for "Afghan*." (The asterisk is a truncation symbol, which tells the database to locate all of the articles containing words which begin with that word stem - namely Afghan, Afghans, Afghani, and Afghanistan.)