Daniel Webster College :: Library

*Also see the library's pathfinder on Women in the Workplace.

SCOPE: Today women are a viable force in the workplace. Rising above the glass ceiling of previous years, many women are high-powered executives running large companies. Women are successful entrepreneurs forging pathways that will impact society. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources that are available in the library.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with women in business are listed in the Baddour Library's online catalog under the following subject headings:

Women in business United States
Women executives
Businesswomen United States History

There are sources located in the Reference Section of he Baddour Library that gives a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF HD 6054.4.U6K753 2004 Encyclopedia of American Women in Business: From Colonial Times to the Present

REF HD 6072.6.U5L58 1994 The Womens Business Resource Guide: A National Directory of over 600 Programs, Resources and Organizations to Help Women Start or Expand a Business

REF HD 6095.S34 1993 Schneider, Dorothy. The ABC-CLIO Companion to Women in the Workplace

CQ Researcher (online database) also available in the Reference Section:

Contingent Work Force 10/24/1997
Crackdown on Sexual Harassment 07/19/1996
Diversity in the Workplace 10/10/1997
Fairness in Salaries 05/29/1992
Feminism's Future 02/28/1997
Income Inequality 04/17/1998
The Glass Ceiling 10/29/1993

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Adler, Nancy J. Competitive Frontiers: Women Managers in a Global Economy. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell, 1994.

Babcock, Linda. Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Harriman, Ann. Women/Men/Management. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1996.

Helgesen, Sally. Everyday Revolutionaries: Working Women and the Transformations of American Life. New York: Doubleday, 1998.

Kwolek-Folland, Angel. Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998.

Moore, Dorothy P. Women Entrepreneurs: Moving Beyond the Glass Ceiling. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1997.

Nichols, Nancy A. Reach for the Top: Women and the Changing Facts of Work Life. Boston: Harvard Business Review, 1994.

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of women in business are:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the links for a list of full-text journals available through our databases in:

VIDEOS

HD6054.4.U6 B49 1994 Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women's Climb to the Executive Suite

WEB SITES

Women-Related Business/Work Web Sites
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_bus.html

Online Women's Business Center
http://www.onlinewbc.gov/

Updated 02/08/2007