Talk:Women in the workforce

references section very lengthy
The references on this topic are going to get very lengthy. The topic badly needs to be split into sub-topics on women in individual professional areas. --Lquilter (talk) 17:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Notes: Searching Amazon for "women in the professions" leads to more than 9,760 items on the topic, mostly books. That's just books indexed in Amazon. The literature in journals will be, of course, incredibly lengthy. Suggestions on how to break these topics down other than by individual profession? --Lquilter (talk) 23:55, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I have begun creating individual sub-topics for individual professions & will move references sections there as appropriate. --Lquilter (talk) 22:23, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I also find the list of recommended reading, even with subheadings by occupation, too lengthy. Each occupation's list would be better moved to a separate article on that particular topic -- Women in engineering, Women in philosophy, etc. In my opinion, anyway. OttawaAC (talk) 04:15, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

sections for this article
I started this article with a brief summary at the top, but doing a cursory review of the literature has suggested some sections for the article. There are lots of other sub-topics to women in the workforce. Thoughts on how to arrange, and other missing subtopics? --Lquilter (talk) 18:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Individual professional areas - Probably all need to be separate articles
 * History of gendered role division; cultural-specific issues
 * Legal workplace discrimination issues; glass ceiling - Women's workplace discrimination law; frankly this is at least a separate article, ultimately, but for now can be a subsection of this article
 * Women & mentoring - the "old boys network" issues which have been addressed in the literature with a lot of discussion of women's mentoring networks (among other things)
 * "Second Shift" & "Mommy track" & "Work-life balance" - Women in the workplace balancing family and work issues; the imbroglio of the NYT's "dropping out" series; gendering of this issue (male work-life balance) etc.
 * Influence on family and medical leave policy -- FMLA, etc.
 * Influence on workplace codes of conduct; sexual harassment laws; First Amendment backlash
 * Relation of gendering with "professionalization" and profession studies; see., e.g., nursing, teaching, librarianship, as gendered professions; transition of professions from male to female (librarianship) leading to feminization of professions, lower pay, etc.
 * wage gap discussion
 * The "Women's participation in different occupations" section needs to be converted into a navigation template (preferably footer style). Kaldari (talk) 22:20, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

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I added a source about workplace discrimination of female. This article is a good explanation of women's inequalities in the workplace. "THE DISRUPTERS. By: KOLHATKAR, SHEELAH, New Yorker, 0028792X, 11/20/2017, Vol. 93, Issue 37"Mengrui Li (talk) 21:33, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Split out bibliography to a separate article?
This article's bibliography is huge—the longest I've seen. It may be time to WP:SPLITOUT the bibliography to a separate article, like the other bibliography articles in List of bibliographies? Biogeographist (talk) 17:52, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

American figure in the introduction
"In 2017 there are around 74.6 million women in the civilian labor force[4]."

What is the interest of having this passage in the introduction? This figure is about the US's female workforce not worldwide. As such, it should be removed.

176.158.146.38 (talk) 19:06, 7 December 2020 (UTC)


 * I've just removed it. I agree that it serves no purpose, and the article is about women in the world's workforce -- not women in the United States workforce. — Panamitsu (talk) 01:54, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

When was the pre-modern era? I couldn't find a definition online.
This is of course because of the problem added in 2020. Oakime (talk) 17:43, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Gender, Race and Computing
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