Jefferson Libraries Celebrates Women’s History Month with Women in the Workforce Book Display

Jefferson Libraries is recognizing and celebrating Women’s History Month with a book display at Gutman Library featuring titles focusing on women in the workforce. The display features titles exploring themes including feminist movements, women entering male-dominated fields, women-led workplace rebellions, Black women’s influence on finance, historical and current professional and social status of transgender women in Kashmir, women in theater, and their influence on gender roles, and much more! 

The physical book display is on the Main Floor of Gutman Library on the furniture piece next to the Popular Reading Collection. You can check out books using your Jefferson ID. We’ve listed some of the physical titles from the display here, as well as electronic titles and films, which are available to everyone at Jefferson.

We hope these titles spark your curiosity about women’s experiences in the workforce.

Gutman librarians created this book display as a part of our Celebrating and Amplifying Diverse Identities Book Display Series. If there’s an identity that you would like to see celebrated in our book displays, please contact Megan Donnelly and Miranda Meketon. If you are a student leader, university staff, or faculty member, we would love to collaborate with you – so feel free to include your contact information in your form submission!  

Print Books (available at Gutman Library)

• Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal by Shennette Garrett-Scott 
• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang  
• Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble  
• Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family by Kirsten Swinth
• The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart  
• Made by Women: Gender, the Global Garment Industry and the Movement for Women Workers’ Rights edited by Nina Ascoly and Chantal Finney
• Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States by Alice Kessler-Harris
• READINGME.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
• Sister Circle: Black Women and Work by Sharon Harley
• Where Are the Women Architects? by Despina Stratigakos  
  

eBooks (available to everyone at Jefferson)

• American Women Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs by Victoria Sherrow
• Extra Bold: A Feminist Inclusive Anti-Racist Non-Binary Field Guide for Graphic Designers by Ellen Lupton
• Gendered Hierarchies of Dependency: Women Making Partnership in Accountancy Firms by Patrizia Kokot-Blamey
• Girls and Women of Color in STEM: Their Journeys in Higher Education by Nahed Abdelrahman
• Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities by Elvi Whittaker 
• Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism edited by Barb Cook and Michelle Garnett
• Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850 by Sara E. Lampert  
• Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel: Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America by Carla Blank
• Women Doctors in War by Judith Bellafaire
• Women and Ideas in Engineering: Twelve Stories from Illinois by Laura D. Hahn

Video (available to everyone at Jefferson)

• Swimming with Lesbians
• Trans Kashmir  
  Interested in this film? Watch it at our LGBTQIA+ Movie Night on Tuesday, March 19 from 7 – 9 pm at the Gutman Library in the Nexus Library Instruction Space! This movie night will be a double feature of Trans Kashmir and Shinjuku Boys. Register to save a spot here or just drop by. 
• To Us the Ashes
• Women in. What it Means to be a Male Ally
• Women in the Workplace