Just typing in the word 'women' will result in a rather intimidating list of possible sites, more than eighty percent of which will have almost nothing to do with your original needs. However, typing 'women, politics' will result in a much narrower focus to the search and a greater likelihood of finding what you're looking for. Yahoo works well but there are a lot of sites it doesn't know anything about. Fortunately, URL addresses are being bandied about like candy these days and most businesses add their URL to their printed information and advertising. There are basically two kinds of services you will want to take advantage of on the World Wide Web, Web Pages and ftp services.
Web pages are what most people mean when they talk about the Internet.
I'll be frank. After my first ten hours on the Web, I exercised the option that both browsers offer to turn off the pictures. The great thing about a computer is all the stuff you can hook up to it, the other great thing is all the stuff you can stuff into it. For that, you'll need to become familiar with ftp. Using a program dedicated to ftp, you basically log into another computer and gain access to files which you can then transfer to your machine.