Jackson Library

Required:

• Richard Layard. Happiness: Lessons from a New Science  • catalog record
• Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober. Getting to 50-50: How Working Couples Can Have It All By Sharing It All • 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?  • catalog record
• Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli. Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders  • catalog record
• Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success  • catalog record
• Linda R. Hirshman. Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World • catalog record
• Debra Meyerson. Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2001 • catalog record
• Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson. Just Enough: Happiness, Achievement, Significance, Legacy  • catalog record
• Allison Pearson. I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother • catalog record
• Louise Marie Roth. Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street • 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 • catalog record
• Sheila Wellington. Be Your Own Mentor  • 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  • catalog record | Chapter 1: The Stanford Survey

For more books, search Library Catalog, using the following subject terms:

• Child Care -- Government Policy
• Happiness
• 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.

Women's Studies

• Contemporary Women's Issues
  
• Gender Watch 

Busienss & Economics Literature

• ABI Inform - Business literature 
  
• EBSCO Business Source Complete - Business literature 
• Factiva - News articles 
• Econlit - Economics literature 

Psychology Literature

• PsycInfo - Indexes and abstracts books, journals in psychology. 

• Catalyst - go to Quick Takes, Research Reports, and Pyramids sections for statistical snapshots. For example:
  • Work-Life: Prevalence, Utilization, and Benefits (2009)
  • Statistical Overview of Women in the Workplace (2009)
  • Women MBAs (2009)
  • Women CEOs of the Fortune 1000 (2009)
  • Women in U.S. Management, 1950-present (2009)
  • Women in Management, Global Comparison (2007)
  • U.S. Women in Business (2009)
• Women's Bureau - U.S. Dept. of Labor
• Earnings by Demographics - highlights of women's earnings. From Bureau of Labor Statsitics.
• Center for Women's Business Research - reports and statistics on women-owned businesses in the U.S. Includes both nationwide and statewide analyses.
• AFL-CIO Working Women - includes news and statistics under four main topics: Equal Pay, Working Women in the Global Economy, Working Women in Union Histor, and AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employee.
• 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.

• Authentic Happniess - taking the “General Happiness Scale” and the “Satisfaction with Life Scale” to see how your happiness level compares to others. 
  • Jackson Library has Dr. Seligman's book "Authentic happiness : using the new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment" catalog record
• Women at Work: A Progress Report - a report from from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
• The Global Gender Gap Report - World Economic Forum
• GSB Women: Leadership Issues - a good source for news and research covering work/life balance, career tracks, women executives, corporate boards, gender & diversity issues, and networking.
• 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
• Women-owned Business Economic Research - U.S. Small Business Administration.

• Women leaders speaking at the GSB
• 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.