Jackson Library

Required:

• lice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli. Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders. Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Business School Press, 2007 • Catalog record
• Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success. Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Business School Press, 2007 • Catalog record
• Linda R. Hirshman. Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World. New York: Viking, 2006 • Catalog record
• Richard Layard. Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. New York: The Penguin Press, 2006 • Catalog record
• Course Reader. All articles listed on syllabus with an asterisk are in course reader.

Recommended:

• Leslie Bennetts. The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? New York: Hyperion, 2007 • Catalog record
• Debra Meyerson. Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2001 • Catalog record
• Allison Pearson. I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002
  • Catalog record
• Louise Marie Roth. Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006
  • Catalog record
• Myra H. Strober and Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan. The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the U.S. and Japan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999 • Catalog record
• Sheila Wellington. Be Your Own Mentor. New York: Random House, 2001 • View ebook 
• Joan Williams. Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000 • Catalog record
• Laraine Zappert. Getting it Right. New York: Pocket Books, 2001 • Catalog record | Chapter 1: The Stanford Survey

For more books, search Socrates using the following subject terms:

• Child Care -- Government Policy
• Leadership in Women
• Older people -- Care -- United States
• Women -- Government Policy
• Women Executives
• Women -- Employment
• Work and Family
• Working Mothers

• GSB Faculty Research on Gender and Diversity Issues
  
• Hot Topics: Women Executives and Career Tracks - articles selected by Jackson Library staff.
• Contemporary Women's Issues - Women's studies. 
  
• Gender Watch - Women's studies 
  
• Econlit - Economics literature 
  
• ABI Inform - Business literature 
  
• EBSCO Business Source Complete - Business literature. 
• Factiva - News articles 
  
• PsycInfo - Indexes and abstracts books, journals in psychology. 

• Catalyst: free materials - Contains lots of useful statistics, including:
  • Women in Management - 2007 report
  • Women in U.S. Management, 1950-present
  • Women in Business: a Snapshot - 2004 fact sheet
  • Women and the MBA (fact sheet) - Full report available in the Jackson Book Collection HF1131 .W65 2000
  • Census of Women Board Directors: 2005 report
• Women's Bureau - U.S. Dept. of Labor
• Center for Women's Business Research - Reports and statistics on women-owned businesses in the U.S. Includes both nationwide and statewide analyses.
• Caregiving in the U.S.: Findings From the National Caregiver Survey - from National Alliance for Caregiving.
• TableBase - Search using terms "women and employment" 
• bizwomen.com - News, feature articles, and success profiles.
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S. - See Labor & Employment section.
• Employment and Earnings - Government statistics.

• Stanford Business School Women - A platform for knowledge sharing and networking among GSB alumnae and current female students.
• Stanford Business School Women Resources - GSB Alumni Association.
• AFL-CIO Working Women - In 2004, women in the United States were paid 76 cents for every dollar men received for comparable work.
• Catalyst - Work/Life Quality & Effectiveness
  
• Families and Work Institute
• Family Caregiver Alliance: Fact sheets & Publications
• National Alliance for Caregiving: Reports
  
• National Partnership for Women & Families - An organization promoting fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family. The "Library" section includes reports on policy issues.
• Rebel Dad: The Stay-at-home Dad Revolution - Weblog, statistics.
• Women@Work
• Women-owned Business Economic Research - U.S. Small Business Administration.

• An Ongoing Revolution : a History of Women and the Stanford Graduate School of Business - Frankie Danly Jones (MBA '06) created a retrospective of the history and experiences of GSB alumnae and faculty over the course of the last 40 years. Filmed in 2006.
  View video (35 min.)

2003 GSB Women's Conference

• Keynote: Leadership and mentoring - Candace Sheffield Matthews, MBA '85 and President, Soft Sheen Carson, Division of L'Oreal USA, Inc.
  View video (32 min.)
• Leading with style - A panel discussion how the style in which you communicate can either help or hinder your ability to become the leader you want to be.
  View video (55 min.) Q&A (14 min.)
• What's love got to do with it?: love and relationship in the lives of GSB women - Larraine Zappert, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine.
  View video (59 min.)
• Meeting the challenge with excellence - Professor Mary Barth interviews Constance Lau, MBA '79, President and CEO, American Savings Bank.
  View video (40 min.)
• Rules for Success - Debi Coleman, MBA '78, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
  View video (19 min.)