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Databases
ABI/Inform - Abstracts and some full-text; Business, Management, Finance, and Economics
Accunet AP Photo Archive - Images
America: History & Life - Abstracts
Associations Unlimited
Contemporary Women's Issues - Full-text
Current Contents  
EconLit - Abstracts 
ERIC - Education, some full-text
Ethnic NewsWatch - Full-text
Expanded Academic - Some full-text, general starting point
GenderWatch - Full-text
Godey's Ladies Book - Full-text of 19th century magazine 
Lexis-Nexis - Full-text; News, Business, Legal Research and Medical 
Music Index and International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) - music, including administration
North American Women's Diaries and Letters - Full-text
PAIS - Abstracts;  Government, Political Science, related areas
PCI Full Text - Humanities and Social Sciences
PsycInfo - Abstracts
PubMed - medical, nursing
Social Science Citation Index (in Web of Science)
Sociological Abstracts  
Women's History Online (Gerritsen) - Full-text, historical content
Women's Studies International - Abstracts
News (see also Lexis-Nexis):
Los Angeles Times (and Historical LA Times)
New York Times (and Historical NY Times)
Wall Street Journal (and Historical WSJ)
NewsBank

Web Sites

• Women and Minorities in High-Tech Careers
• Welfare to Work: Considerations for Adult and Vocational Education Programs
• K-12 Single Sex Education: What Does the Research Say?
• Adult Women in Community Colleges
• Higher Education Leadership: Analyzing the Gender Gap
• Women in Community College Leadership Roles 

Current Affairs
Monthly Labor Review Index - Letter "W" - full-text articles on women and work
What Occupations are Considered Nontraditional for Women?
Labor Research Portal (UCB)
Center for Women & Work Virtual Library (U. of Mass. - Lowell)
Retail Worker
Coalition of University Employees (CUE) - Members are all around you; see also UC-AFT
Berkeley Center for Working Families

• Publications & Working Papers

Institute for Women's Policy Research - The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families. IWPR focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, the economic and social aspects of health care and domestic violence, and women's civic and political participation.  See list of research reports. 
Women's Safety and Health Issues at Work (NIOSH)
Human Rights Watch - Women Workers
United Farm Workers - see its History page and Wayne State U.'s La Causa site (images, bibliographies, etc.)
Center for Women's Business Research  
Center for Impact Research Reports:

• Welfare Reform Project
• Teen Mothers on TANF
• Prostitution

Joint Center for Poverty Research Reports (Northwestern U./U. of Chicago) - search working papers:

• Did Welfare Leavers' Employment Levels and Job Characteristics Change During TANF Implementation: An Analysis Using SIPP 1996-2000
• Teen Motherhood, Labor Market Involvement and the Receipt of Public Assistance
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Era of Devolution: A Persistent Challenge to Welfare Reform
• Employer Demand for Welfare Recipients By Race

ACVE Publications (to 2003):

• The Older Worker
• Has Nontraditional Training Worked for Women?

Historical
ACLU Women's Rights Victories
American Antiquarian Society Exhibit: A Woman's Work is Never Done
Women's Work in the 19th Century (Kennesaw State University)
American Women's History: Farm Work & Life
Rosie the Riveter Trust
American Life Histories (WPA)
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An On-Line Archival Collection
Women Working: 1800-1930

Statistical
From the US Census:

• Statistical Abstract of the United States 2004
  • Section 12 - Labor and Employment
  • 2000-1995 Index and Letter "W"
• American Factfinder - People (includes income and employment)
• Example: Women Data vs. WildLife
• Population and Household Economic Topics
• Child Care
• Gender/Sex - Women-Owned Business Enterprises (1997), Men and Women in the US, 2002 (pdf file), Working at Home, Economic Well-Being
• Maternity Leave and Employment Patterns, 1961-1995 (pdf file)

From the US Department of Labor:

• Overview of Report on the American Workforce, 2001
• BLS Employment Projections
• Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-05
• Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers, 2004
• Women's Bureau

  • Statistics and Data, including:
  • 20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women (1999-2003)
  • Nontraditional Occupations for Women (1999-2003)
  • Equal Pay: a Thirty-Five-Year Perspective (1998; pdf file)

From Martin P. Catherwood Virtual Library at Cornell University:

• Statistical Research and Data links
• Workplace Issues Today - for the most current news stories

Other:
WorkIndex - a virtual library of human resources information; includes surveys and results
Women's Health 2003 (US Dept of Health & Human Services Report; no 2004 yet)

International
ILO's Gender Website

• The Feminization of Poverty

United Nations - WomenWatch
Behind the Label
National Labor Committee (AFL-CIO) - Resources and Reports 
International Institute of Social History - Women's History  
Intro to Women & Globalization (UNPAC)

Methodology
Instat Guide to Choosing & Interpreting Statistical Tests (pdf file)- the intro to statistical principles part
An Overview of Content Analysis
Research Methods Resources on the WWW

Your Topic Choices - Examples:
Cruzcat Subject Headings:

Books:

HD4904.25 .W654 2003
Women, family, and work : writings on the economics of gender / edited by Karine S. Moe. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2003
HQ1075.5.U6 P79 2002
The psychology of sex, gender, and jobs : issues and solutions/ edited by Louis Diamant and Jo Ann Lee. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002
HV95 .H36 2003
Flat broke with children : women in the age of welfare reform / Sharon Hays. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
HD6061.2.U6 M363 2001
Complex inequality : gender, class, and race in the new economy / Leslie McCall.   New York : Routledge, 2001
HD6061.2.U6 S72 2001
Squaring up : policy strategies to raise women's incomes in the United States / edited by Mary C. King. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2001
HD6061.2.U6K47 1990
A woman's wage : historical meanings and social consequences / Alice Kessler-Harris. Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, 1990
HQ1206 .H225 2000
Work-lifestyle choices in the 21st century : preference theory / Catherine Hakim. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
HQ518 .W35 2000
Walking a tightrope : meeting the challenges of work and family / edited by Carol D.H. Harvey. Burlington, Vt., USA : Ashgate, 2000
HQ1421 .S675 1996
Balancing act: motherhood, marriage, and employment among American women /Daphne Spain and Suzanne M. Bianchi. New York: Sage, 1996
HQ1075 .G4648 1999
Gender, power and the household / edited by Linda McKie, Sophia Bowlby, and Susan Gregory. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999
HD4918 .E375 2001
Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich.  New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001. See also:
HD4921.G7 A2 2002 Below the Breadline: Living on the Minimum Wage/Fran Abrams. London: Profile, 2002.
HD4921.G7 T69 2003 Hard work : life in low-pay Britain / Polly Toynbee.London : Bloomsbury, 2003
S&E Stacks RT86.4 .G76 2001
Nursing, physician control, and the medical monopoly : historical perspectives on gendered inequality in roles, rights, and range of practice / Thetis M. Group, Joan I. Roberts. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2001
LB2831.8 .W64 2002
Women and school leadership : international perspectives / edited by Cecilia Reynolds. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2002
BF531 .H62 2003 
The managed heart : commercialization of human feeling / Arlie Russell Hochschild. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003
HT867 .B35 2000
Disposable people : new slavery in the global economy / Kevin Bales. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1999
HD6057.5.U5 S57 2000
Work roles, gender roles, and Asian Indian immigrant women in the United States / Arpana Sircar. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2000
HD6072 .G55 2003
Global woman: nannies, maids, and sex workers in the new economy/ Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, eds. New York:Metropolitan Books, 2003
HD6072 .P27 2001
Servants of globalization : women, migration and domestic work / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001
HB1 .W67 no.6328
The determinants of child care workers' wages and compensation : sectoral difference, human capital, race, insiders and outsiders / H. Naci Mocan, Deborah Viola. Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1997.