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Economics 183 - Women in the Economy

• Background Information
  • Selected Policy Centers
  • Selected Web Sites
• Find Books
• Find Articles
• Find Statistics & Data
• Recommended Web Search Engines
• Selected Government Resources
• Works Cited/Citation Tools
• Contact the Economics Librarian

Background Information

• Browse policy institute websites, government agency websites and locate their publications, policy briefs, working papers. Look for your topic.
• Collect keywords, terms, author names and make note of references to studies.
• Browse the bibliographies of reports/working papers and look for titles you may want to try and find in cruzcat and/or the library databases. Use the reports and briefs you find to help build your search terms for the database searches you will conduct.

***Web Search Caveat***: always verify the accuracy of information you find online. Use the library's How to Evaluate Information on the Web to help assess a site you may want to reference.

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Selected Policy Centers

• Institute for Women's Policy Research
• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
• Catalyst 
• EPI - Economic Policy Institute
• Urban Institute - use the keyword search, or, look under issues and drill down.
• Human Rights Campaign

Selected Web Resources

• Intute - UK-based, consortium of education institutions, provides links to research on the web in the social sciences. Pay particular attention to the section on women's studies. Useful for international perspective on wage gap.
• RePec
• National Center for Women in Policing see publications section
• Sloan Work and Family Research Network work & Family Encyclopedia - Boston College

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Selected Recommended Books

(find more by searching in Cruzcat. Start with keywords, take note of subject headings, follow links)

• Working Americans, 1880-1999
• Designing Clothes: Culture & Organization of the Fashion Industry
• Women's Figures: an Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America

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Find Articles

• CSA/Illumina: Choose from any of the 30+ databases provided by CSA (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.) Cross-database searching is allowed. Subject area(s): ['Art and Art History', 'General Subjects', 'Humanities', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences'].
  • Type CSA/Illumina in the search box.
  • Select Advanced Search.
  • Select Social Sciences from the subject drop down box located directly under the green search button.
  • Select or deselect individual databases from the link labeled "specific databases" next to the drop down box.

NOTE: Use UC-eLinks to locate items owned by UCSC.

 

• Business Source Complete
• Econlit
• WSI - good database to locate names of international groups or organizations, not necessarily scholarly or peer reviewed works. Licensed by UCSC, will need to use OCA to logon from off campus.

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Selected Sources for Statistics & Data

 

Many of the articles you find will include data and discussions of the data. If you need additional data, or, want to look deeper into the statistics used in the journal articles you find, the library has a very thorough research guide to help determine how to find statistics.

 

Sample resources (remember, too, many of the sites listed above also have a statistics or data section)

 

• Statistical Abstract of the United States NOTE: this is also available on line
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
•  ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. Comprehensive archive of detailed data sets in the social sciences. ICPSR data span many disciplines including sociology, political science, criminology, history, education, demography, gerontology, international relations, public health, economics, and psychology. Some data files may require specialized software such as STATA, SPSS, SAS, etc., which are not provided by the library.
  • check out the thesaurus
  • check out the subject guide 
• Diversity Central - resources for diversity at work
• March 2008 Women's History Month - Snapshot Data about women in U.S.

 

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Recommended Search Engines

 

Government-focused Search Engines

 

• Google Uncle Sam

OR

• USA.gov

 

Both search engines will search government, .gov, websites only. Useful for focusing and narrowing your web search, and tracking down statistics identified in your readings/research.

 

Scholarly Internet Search Engine

 

If you are going to make use of Google to find articles, use the Google search engine that will help you direct your search to scholarly articles.

 

• Google Scholar - if you live off campus, login to the Off Campus Access server before you search Google Scholar. Doing this will allow you to connect to any articles we own/license through the library.

 

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Government Resources of Special Note

 

• Monthly Labor Review - "...is the principal journal of fact, analysis, and research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor." An index for all the volumes from 1991-2007 is available here.
• The Department of Labor has a "find it" by topic, audience, index. Topics include wages, health plans, unemployment. Look through these and link to the statistics referenced.
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics: The Bureau of Labor Statistics is an agency under the Dept. of Labor, it is "... the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics." Use the search box to help ascertain how to locate statistics on your topic; use your keywords or, search for surveys referenced in your scholarly articles if you are uncertain of what terminology to use.
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : statistics about job patterns for women and minorities along with special reports about the data are available on this site.
• GAO Government Accountability Office
• Congressional Budget Office
• SBA women in business (Small Business Association report on women in business)
• Women Watch : United Nations Directory of UN Resources on Gender and Women's Issues - look under thematic issues and critical areas of concern, try "women and economy"

 

NOTE:

• Statistics about the glass ceiling and women of color are available from the EEOC.
• Foreign Labor Statistics : are available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics web page.

 

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Citation Guides

 

The library has physical copies of the APA and Chicago Manual of Style citation guides at the Reference Desks.

There is an on-line How To guide for APA, as well.

Copies of the Chicago Manual of Style are located in the McHenry and S&E Libraries behind the Reference Desk, call number: Z253 .C57 2003

 

Citation Tools (Works Cited/Bibliography)

 

• Many of the library databases will export and format citations into MLA, APA or other bibliography/works cited formats. When saving or sending an article to yourself, look for terms like "export citations," OR "choose a bliography style" and follow instructions to create a fully formatted bibliography for your paper.

• UC-eLinks will also allow you to copy and paste a formatted citation. Choose the option "copy and paste citation" link located under the header "Add Citation to Bibliography."

 

NOTE: Always verify the format of the citation with your style guide/manual. Sometimes exported citations can drop portions of a citation - double check. It is still significantly less time-consuming to verify the accuracy of a format than it is to manually format all of your citations.

 

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Free Class Demonstrating Free Works Cited/Bibliography Creation Tools

 

Thursday, 2/19/09, 2pm, Science & Engineering Library, room 215. Learn how to use Endnote Web & Zotero to automatically format your bibliography and insert citations into your paper while you write.

 

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 contact: Kerry Scott

last updated: 2/10/09