Gender and the Professions
AMST 118a
Prof. Joyce Antler
Friday Feb. 27, 2004
Judith Pinnolis, Reference Librarian
pinnolis@brandeis.edu
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AMST 118a
Prof. Joyce Antler
Friday Feb. 27, 2004
Judith Pinnolis, Reference Librarian
pinnolis@brandeis.edu
Explores gender distinctions as a key element in the organization of professions, analyzing the connections among sex roles, occupational structure, and American social…
Subject Headings from LOUIS catalog:
Women in the professions-United States
Sex discrimination in employment-United States
Or alternative subject headings:
Afro-American women in the professions
African American women in the professions
Keyword searching for broad approach. Think of alternative vocabulary and synonyms such as:
(gender or women) and (profession or occupation or career)
[you can substitute your specific term, such as law or medicine or teaching or social work or nursing or journalism or business]
(women or female) and (labor or employment)
(women or gender) and labor and statistics
Thematic searches for more focused approach: use some or all of several synonyms to sweep up a concept:
(women or woman) and (career or executives or glass ceiling or corporate ladder)
(two career families or dual-career or working women or second shift) and child care
(salaries or pay or compensation) and (discrimination or inequality or equality)
women and (America or United States) and (religion or clergy or faith or church or synagogue)
(gender or women) and (politics or leadership or government or congress)
In LOUIS and other databases, a wildcard can replace a letter in a word for alternatives, such as wom?m which will pick up woman or women.
You can use the ? as a truncation symbol in LOUIS as well, such as child?, which will pick up child, children, or childhood.
Be sure to use enough letters in a truncation, for example chil?, will pick up "chilly" or "chile" instead of the desired words!
The wild card can also pick up variant spellings such as labo?r, will pick up labor and labour.
Use truncation to pick up various endings of a word, implement?, which will pick up implement, implementing, implements, implementation etc.
Some methods might be time bound, format bound, or source bound.
For example:
For research materials in an historical context, the research might shift to historical databases such as:
Searching secondary and primary sources may take a shift in formats.
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender
Main Ref HQ1115 .E52 2001
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women
Main Ref HQ 1115 .R69
For example secondary sources may be found in journals or books. For finding secondary sources, consult the Libraries' QuickStart Guides for getting started.
Some guides that may be relevant to your search area are:
American History Guide
http://lts.brandeis.edu/research/help/quick-guides/amhistory.html
American Studies Guide
http://lts.brandeis.edu/research/help/quick-guides/amstudies.html
Education Guide
http://lts.brandeis.edu/research/help/quick-guides/education.html
Key Statistics Guide
http://lts.brandeis.edu/research/help/guides/stats.html
Women's Studies Guide
http://lts.brandeis.edu/research/help/quick-guides/women.html
Primary sources may be found in statistics, personal narratives, interviews, case studies or documents on microfilm. Primary sources also may be found in diaries, journals, or letters. For detailed information about finding primary sources, go to the Libraries' pages on
Primary Text Research in the Humanities located at:
http://lts.brandeis.edu/research/help/primarytext/
Statistical Handbook on the American Family
Main Ref HQ536 .X727 1999
AmeriStat
http://www.ameristat.org
Demographics of the U.S.: Trends and Projections
Reference Desk HB849.49 .R87 2000
Digest of Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/majorpub.asp
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index-medium.html
Statistical Abstracts of the United States
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/statuniv/
United States Historical Census Data - 1790-1970
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
Women and Gender WebSites
http://libr.org/wss/WSSLinks/index.html
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/business.html
Women Owned Businesses
http://www.womanowned.com/
Women Working in Non-traditional Fields: References and Resources, 1963-1988
Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson.
Main Stacks HD6095 .W5 1991
From Charity to Social Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Creation of an American Profession
By Elizabeth N. Agnew
Cataloguing
Women and Men Communicating: Challenges and Changes
edited by Laurie P. Arliss, Deborah J. Borisoff
Main Stacks P96.S48 W64 2001
Gender in the Legal Profession: Fitting or Breaking the Mould
by Joan Brockman
Main Stacks KE332.W6 B76 2001
The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements
By Dan Clawson.
Main Stacks HD6490.O72 U633 2003
Restructuring Gender Relations and Employment: The Decline of the Male Breadwinner
edited by Rosemary Crompton
Main Stacks HD6134 .R47 1999
Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America
by Mary Margaret Fonow.
Main Stacks HD6079.2.U5 F655 2003
The Gender Bias Prevention Book: Helping Girls and Women to have Satisfying Lives and Careers
By Montana Katz
Main Stacks HQ1237.5.U6 K37 1996
Women, Family, and Work: Writings on the Economics of Gender
edited by Karine S. Moe.
Main Stacks HD4904.25 .W654 2003
Gender and the Formation of a Women's Profession: The Case of Public Schoolteaching
by Jo Anne Preston
Main Stacks + LB1175.2 .P74 1991
The Difference "Difference" Makes: Women and Leadership
edited by Deborah L. Rhode
Main Stacks HQ1237.5.U6 D54 2003
Rabbis, Lawyers, Immigrants, Thieves: Exploring Women's Roles
by Rita J. Simon
Main Stacks HQ1421 .S595 1993
Violence Against Women in the Workplace: The Extent of the Problem and What Government and Business are Doing About It
GovDoc Y 4.L 11/4:S.HRG.107-591
Statistics:
Statistics from the U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Highlights of women's earnings …
GovDoc L 2.71/10: