The President's Commission on Women

Aleman, A.M.M. & Renn, K.A. (2002). Women in higher education: An Encyclopedia.  
Santa Barbara, CA: Abcclio.
…helps readers understand: The social and historical context of women’s struggle for higher education…How women transformed the higher educations system…The documented differences between men and women as students…—Book Excerpt.

Anzaldúa, G.E. & Keating, A. (2002) This bridge we call home: Radical visions for transformation. New York: Routledge.
“More than twenty years after the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back called upon feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, {the authors} have painstakingly assembled a new collection of over eight original writings that offers a bold new vision of women-of-color consciousness for the twenty-first century.”

Babcock, L. & Laschever, S. (2003). Women don’t ask: Negotiation & the Gender
Divide. Princeton. Princeton, NJ: University Press.
“….Although women have made great strides in American society, the reality is
that, since the 1990s, progress has slowed to almost a standstill. Gracefully &
with humor, Linda Babcock & Sara Laschever tell a riveting story about an
invisible problem that’s been hiding in plain sight: one major reason that women
still work for less money and advance less far and less fast than men is that
women themselves have accepted the status quo…”—Teresa Heinz

Baumgardner, J. & Richards, A. (2000). Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 
“At last, Gen X takes on feminism and revamps a feminist manifesto for a new era. Manifesta is readable, well informed, and necessary to any young woman-or man-who craves gender equality.”—Naomi Wolf

Bok, Derek.  (2003).  Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education.  Princeton University Press.
“This book is thoughtful and wide ranging analysis of commercial pressures on universities.  There is no other study like it.  Extremely well organized, clear, and gracefully written, [this book] will be of interest to all those concerned about higher education and its future.”—William G. Bowen, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Byrne, D. and Anderson, J (2004).  The Unfinished Agenda of Brown Versus Board of Education
New Jersey:  Black Issues in Higher Education
“..enriched throughout by poignant oral histories in which many of those involved…share their firsthand experiences with segregation and the struggle for educational equality”

Caplan, P.J., Crawford, M., Hyde, J.S., & Richardson, J.T. (1997). Gender Differences in Human Cognition. New York: Oxford Press.
“…an important series for students, faculty, and researchers. A forum for in-depth dialogue on current topics of concern to researchers in psychology, education, child development, linguistics, and neuroscience, each volume consists of extensive chapters written by researchers representing key viewpoints on a particular subject.”

Collins, G. (2003) 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines.  New York:  Harper Collins Books.
“Told chronologically through the compelling stories of individual lives that, linked together provide a complete picture of the American woman’s experience.”

Collins, J. (2001). Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t: Good to Great. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc.
“This carefully researched and well-written book disproves most of the current management hype—from the cult of the superhuman CEO to the cult of IT to the acquisitions and merger mania. It will not enable mediocrity to become competence. But it should enable competence to become excellence.”—Peter F. Drucker

Conor, Liz. (2004). The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920’s.  Indiana University Press.
“The Spectacular Modern Woman is a powerful contribution to modernist studies that greatly advances our understanding of the gender dynamics and visual culture of modernity.  Conor offers a careful calibrated account of the complex meanings of female visibility as allowing for new possibilities of self-fashioning, sexual expression, mobility, and display, as well as for surveillance, harassment, and self-scrutiny.”—Reita Felski, author of The Gender of Modernity and Literature after Feminism

Conway, J.K. (2001). A woman’s Education: The Road from Coorain Leads to Smith College. New York:  Random House.
 “…an account of her {author} decade as the first woman president of Smith College—a time when she was faced with the challenge of reinventing women’s education and with the demands of her own life…”

Costello, C.B. & Stone, A.J. (2001). The American Woman 2001-2002: Getting to the Top. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
“At last, a good look at women’s progress in breaking through the glass ceiling and at the strategies and conditions that enable them to succeed. The complex barriers with which ambitious women of color must deal are thoughtfully explored.”—Julia Carson, U.S. representative from Indiana.

Crowley, B.L. (1994). The Road to Equity: Gender, Ethnicity, and Language, Impolitic Essays. Toronto, Canada: Stoddart Publishing Co.
“In this the last decade of the twentieth century, Canadians have come to expect social and economic equality for all. We believe society should right the historical wrongs done to Native Canadians, women, racial minorities, the Quebecois, and the disabled—without delay. But should we really go this far in pursuit of egalitarianism?”

Dana, Daniel (2001). Conflict Resolution. Madison, WI: McGraw Hill.
"the first book to provide specific mediation skills and managerial tools for successfully preventing, managing, and resolving workpalce conflicts."

Daniels, D.M. & Sandy, C. (2000). Souls of my Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories, and Heal Their Spirits.  New York, NY: Kensington Publishing Corporation.
“In these pages, black women from all walks of life candidly reveal how they
overcame challenges just like the ones you’re facing now. From Patti LaBelle,
Terrie Williams, and Rosalyn McMillan to single moms and spiritual leaders,
these diverse females have bonded together in print, for the first time, to
discuss the issues that have touched their lives.”

Eagly, Alice H. and Carli, Linda L. (2007). Through the Labyrinth. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation.
"When it comes to understanding women and leadership, Through the Labyrinth explains it all. Based on solid research and full of pithy quotes and real-world examples, the book is ideal for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction regarding the factors that affect women in positions of leadership. It is simply the best book on the subject, destined to become a classic." ---Barbara A Gutek, professor, Department Management and Organizations, University of Arizona

Ellison, S., ed. (2004) If Women Ruled the World. San Francisco:  Inner Ocean Publishing, Inc.
“shines the spotlight on women’s opinions and ideas and suggests concrete calls-to-action, challenging women to be true participants in leading the world.” (4 COPIES)

Ensher, E. and Murphy, S. (2005)  Power Mentoring:  How Successful Mentors and Protéges get the Most out of Their Relationships.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.
“nuts-and-bolts guide for anyone who wants to create a connection with a protégé or mentor or improve a current mentoring relationship…illustrative examples and candid insights from fifty of America’s most successful mentors and protégés”

Etzkowitz, H., Kemelgor, C and Uzzi, B. (2000) Athena Unbound:  The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press
“ emphasizes that science is an intensely social activity…authors reveal hidden barriers, subtle exclusions and unwritten rules of the scientific workplace and the effects…on the female scientist.”

Fowlkes, Diane L.  (1992).  White Political Women: Paths from Privilege to Empowerment.  The University of Tennessee Press
“Fowlkes’s study of white political women represents an important contribution to the growing feminist efforts to give attention to differences among women and to focus on racial issues in such a way as to problematize whiteness.  Her theoretically informed and engaged study develops the concept of complex domination to explore how a variety of white political women have come to understand social locations characterized by both privilege and discrimination.”—Nancy C.M Hartsock, University of Washington

George, Phyllis (2003). Never Say Never: Ten Lessons to Turn You Can't into Yes I Can. New York: McGraw-Hill
With a career spanning three decades adn transitioning seamlessly between the fields of sports, entertainment, politics and even cooking and crafts, Phyllis George...shares the 10 essential lessons of her vast and varied experience.

Golden, C.J. (2005). The Tao of the Defiant Woman: A Guide to Life Over 40. New York: Eronel Publishing.
Like the yin and the yang, defiance and Taoism combine to create the perfect balance in the perspective on life, love and change defined in the Tao of the Defiant Woman

Glazer-Raymo, J. (1999). Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
…uses a critical feminist perspective to examine women’s progress in higher education since 1970. She contrasts the activism of the 1970s, the passivity of the 1980s, and the ambivalence and antipathy demonstrated toward feminism in the 1990s…—Book Excerpt

Harvard Business Essentials (2003). Negotiation. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing Coroporation.
"will help any manager sharpen skills and yield a sizable payoff. Contents include preparing the necessary information before a negotion, managing multiparty negotiations, assessing the position of the opposing side, determining your sources of power and authority in a negotion"

Hermann, A. and Stewart, A., ed. (2001).  Theorizing Feminism:  Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences.  Colorado:  Westview Press.
“well-chosen and inclusive articles make it an ideal source for tracing cross-disciplinary appropriation of concepts and methods in feminist theory.”—Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado at Boulder

Hooks, B. (2000). Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. (2nd ed). Massachusetts: South End Press
…a comprehensive examination of the core issues of sexual politics, including political solidarity among women, men as partners in struggle, and the feminist movement to end violence…—Book Excerpt
 
 Horing, L.S. (2003). Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes: Women in American Research
Universities.(Ed). New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
“ Horining assembled a group of experts to tell us just how far women have come in being
equal players on the faculties of research universities, the inequities they still face and why, and potential remedies that could help us to achieve equality if only administrators could overcome the common belief that these problems do not exist at their institutions. Chapters by experts from inside the system not only illuminate these important issues but also serve as a sobering reminder that progress for women in the academy can go backwards as well as forwards…”—Professor Nancy Hopkins, Department of Biology, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
 
Hurtado, A. (1996). Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender: The Color of Privilege, Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Arguing against the normative feminist model based on white women’s experience, Aída Hurtado advances a theory of relational privilege to explain that the different responses to feminism are not so much the result of personality or cultural differences between white women and women of color, but of their differing relationship to white men.—Book Excerpt

Goodlad, J., Mantle-Bromley, C., and Goodlad, S.  (2004).  Education for Everyone:  Agenda for Education in a Democracy.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass
“provide a basic primer for why public schools are central to democracy and how they need to change in order to fulfill their historic purpose.”—Anne Bryant, Executive Director, National School Boards Association

Kidd, S.M. (1996). The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey From Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine. New York: Harper Collins Publishers Inc.
…Sue Monk Kidd was a “conventionally religious, churchgoing woman, a traditional wife and mother” with a thriving career as a Christian writer until she began to question role as a woman in her culture, her family, and her church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore to monastery retreats and rituals in the caves of Crete, Kidd takes readers through the fear, anger, healing, and transformation of their awakening…—Book Excerpt

Killmath, C. (2001).  Sexual Assault in Context:  Teaching College Men About Gender.  Florida:  Learning Publications. (2 COPIES)

Johnson, A.  (1997).  The Gender Knot:  Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.
“defines and addresses patriarchy in terms that we can all understand…how both men and women can see themselves as part of the process of change toward something better.”

Lencioni, Patrick (2002). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
"a leadership fable--that reveals the five dysfunctiosn that go to the very heart of why teams, even the best ones, often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive effective team."

Levine, Susan (1995). Degrees of Equality: The American Association of University Women and the Challenge of Twentieth Century Feminism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
"By examining the experience of groups like AAUW, Levine suggests that feminism was notso much "reborn" in the 1970s as it was adopted by a rapidly growing constituency of college educated women demanding the realization of their goals."

Lorde, A. (1984). Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press.
“Lorde is a convincing, powerful writer…Her prose speaks directly to the heart of such issues as racism, self-acceptance, motherhood and womanhood: Sister Outsider is an eye-opener.” –Publishers Weekly.

Mabokela, Reitumetse Obakeng, and Green Anna L. (2001).  Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Education. 
Sisters of the Academy is both a response to these inquiries and a reflection of a particular experience within the academy as seen through the eyes of African American scholars.—from the preface of Sisters of the Academy, Lee Jones

Magee, M., MD. (2005).  Health Politics:  Power, Populism and Health.  New York:  Spencer Books.
“offers 76 essays examining the hidden stories and emerging trends behind some of our most pressing health care topics—obesity, tobacco control, HIV testing, depression, violence, elder care, stem cell research, and much more.”

Maxwell, J. (2005).  The 360 Degree Leader:  Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization.  Tennessee:  Thomas Nelson.
“shows how 99% of all leadership in most organizations takes place in the middle…shares secrets of how to increase your influence…from wherever you are.”(2 COPIES)

Mayberry, K., ed. (1996).  Teaching What You’re Not:  Identity Politics in Higher Education.  New York:  New York University Press.

Maher, F.A., & Tetreault, M.K. (2001). The Feminist Classroom: Dynamics of Gender, Race and Privilege.  Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
…{This book provides} a vivid sense not only of how questions about race and gender intersect for college undergraduates, but also how the teachers actually present their classes, how the students react to what they read, where they grow angry, why they are led so often to disguise their own beliefs.—Book Excerpt.

Moody, J. (2004). Faculty Diversity: Problems & Solutions. New York: Routledge
…JoAnn Moody illustrates the barriers that women and especially minorities find blocking their entry and advancement in the professorate. Faculty Diversity offers a number of good practices for majority campuses, departments, and individual faculty to follow that will improve their evaluation, recruitment, retention, and mentorship of women and minorities.—Book Excerpt (4 Copies)

Quinn, J. (2003). Powerful subjects: Are Women Really Taking Over the University? Stoke on Tent: Trentham Books.
“Jocey Quinn’s groundbreaking and engaging book probes questions of gender, generation, social difference, misogyny and racism which lie beneath the rhetoric of inclusion and access. Yet her richly textured ethnographic study also confronts the fact that Higher Education can no longer be seen as unproblematically a man’s world.”—Professor Valerie Hey

Rappaport, R., Bailyn, L., Fletcher, J., and Pruitt, B.(2002).  Beyond Work-Family Balance:  Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass.

Roberts, Cokie (2004).  Founding mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation.
New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers Inc.
…Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored
recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women
{women who fought the Revolution} bringing to life the everyday trials and
extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren,
Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther
DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington…—Book Excerpt

Schein, E.H. (1992). Organizational Culture and Leadership. (2nd ed).
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Transforms the abstract concept of culture into a tool that managers & students
can use to better shape the dynamics of organization & change. Focusing on the
complex business realities of the 1990s, Schein draws on a wide range of
contemporary research to redefine culture and demonstrate the crucial role
leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve their
organizations’ goals.—Book excerpt.

Shauman, K. and Xie, Y. (2003).  Women in Science:  Career Processes and Outcomes.  Massachusetts:  Harvard University Press.
“provides a systemic account of how U.S. youth are selected into and out of science education in early life, and how social forces affect career outcomes later in the science labor market.”

Smith, W., Altbach, P., and  Lomotey, K., ed. (2002).  The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education:  Continuing Challenges for the Twenty-First Century.  New York:  State University of New York Press.
“provide an up-to-date analysis of the role that critical race theory plays in helping to understand how prejudice toward and discrimination against people…continues in society and in or institutions of higher education.”—Yolanda T. Moses, President, American Association for Higher Education

Solomon, B.M. (1985). In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America. Binghamton, NY: Vail-Ballou press.
“This marvelous & monumental book will be an enduring classic—a major contribution to our understanding of historical changes in the lives of American women during the past two hundred years. It is a very human book, filled with humor as well as statistics, and will be enjoyed by a general as well as an academic audience.”—Kathryn Kish Sklar

Valian, Virginia. (1999). Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
"This book uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of mena dn women. According to Valian, mena dn women alike have implicit hypotheses about gender differences that create small sex diferences in characteristics, behavior, perceptions, and evaluations of men and women. Valian's goal is to make the invisible factors that retard women's progress visible, so that fair treatment of men adn women will be possible."

Wenniger, M.D. & Conroy, M.H, ed. (2001). Gender Equity or Bust! On the Road to Campus Leadership with Women in Higher Education. New York: Wiley & Sons, Inc.
“Gender Equity or Bust! Is a mid-flight snapshot of one of the most remarkable results of the 1970s women’s movement, changing the face of American Higher education as women have moved steadily into deanships and presidencies.”—Sheila Tobias, former Associate Provost, Connecticut Wesleyan
 
 Wisker, G. (1996). Empowering Women in Higher Education. Great Britain: Kogan Page
…{This book}is divided into two sections, focusing first on women students, their needs and experiences and the changes to courses, teaching and learning practices to promote women’s learning. The second part examines women staff and issues such as recruitment, training, promotion, leadership, and balancing teaching pressures with home life.—Book Excerpt.

White, Kate. (1995). Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead But Gutsy Girls Do. New York: Warner Books
"Kate White, editor-in-chief of Redbook magazine, tells you how to bea Gutsy Girl and get ahead! Katie started out as a rule follower until she was passed over for a top job at a magazine she had been running for months. You'll get the inside story of how other gutsy women became stars in their fields. And you'll get tips you can put into action today to get a promotion, a better job, or the recognition you deserve."

Wood, J.T. (2003). Gendered lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture. (5th ed). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomas Learning.
…Julia T.Wood, a leading gender communication scholar, introduces you to the
many ways that gender images of masculinity and femininity so greatly affect not
only how you communicate, but how you live your life. Filled with candid
commentaries from students that vividly illustrate how they relate to gender
communication issues…—Book Except

Wyer, M., Barbercheck, M., Giesman, D., Ozturk, H, and Wayne, M., ed. (2001).  Women, Science, and Technology.  New York:  Routledge.
“provides clear and exciting introduction to main themes in the last several decades of research on women, gender, and science ...clarify complex issues for students in the sciences   as well as in other fields.” –Sandra Harding, Professor of Education and Women’s Studies, UCLA

 Journals and Other Misc References

Balancing the Equation—Where are Women and Girls in Science, Engineering and Technology?
National Council for Research on Women (2001)

Education Beyond Brown:  Future Perspectives, University of Kentucky President’s Commission on Diversity (2004)

Diversifying the Faculty—Guidebook to Search Committees, Association of American Colleges and Universities (2002)

A New Vision for Kentucky:  Final Report to the Governor’s Task Force on the Economic Status of Kentucky’s Women.  (2003)

1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce, Family and Work Institute

National Research Council: From Scarcity to Visibility, Gender Differences in Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers

New Paradigms for Diversifying Faculty and Staff in Higher Education: Uncovering Cultural Biases in the Search and Hiring Process (2003)

Tenure Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in Academia, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation (2004)

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership
            Vol 2 Number 3 2004
            Vol 3 Number 2 2005
            Vol 3 Number 4 2005
            Vol 4 Number 3 2006
            Vol 4 Number 4 2006 (5 copies)
            Vol 5 Number 1 2007
            Vol 5 Number 2 2007

Journal of Interpersonal Violence
            Vol 19 Number 11 Nov 2004

National Women’s Studies Journal
            Vol 16 Number 2 Summer 2004
            Vol 16 Number 3 Fall 2004
            Vol 17 Number 1 Spring 2005
            Vol 17 Number 3 Fall 2005
            Vol 18 Number 1 Spring 2006

Race, Gender, and Class
            Vol 11 Number 1 2004
            Vol 11 Number 2 2004
            Vol 11 Number 4 2004
            Vol 12 Number 1 2005