Annotated Bibliography (WooHyun Kim)

1. Silverberg, Helene. "Commissions on the Status of Women." The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1998. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Mar. 2010.


- This text is about commissions on the status of women. It is talking about the most important proposals for commissions on the status of women emerged out of the conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment. The commission's most enduring contribution was its role in helping to launch the contemporary feminist movement. Through the creation of state commissions on the status of women, the president's commission fostered a national network of primarily white, middle-class women concerned with these issues. It was at the 1966 national gathering of state commissioners that the National Organization for Women was founded.

2. Thomas, Sue. "National Federation of Business and Professional Women.(Organization overview)." The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1998. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Mar. 2010.


- This text is about the National Federation of Business and Professional Women of the United States which is kind of organization. This organization offers to its approximately eight hundred thousand members legislative advocacy on issues such as economic equity, health, and civil rights, a legislative hotline, personal and professional development workshops, opportunities for networking, a quarterly magazine, a benefits package that includes business loans and medical insurance, and annual national conventions and lobby days.


3. "Faculty: status of women and minority faculty." Report by: U.S. Department of Education (2002): 103. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Mar. 2010.

- This text shows about the improvement of women’s faculty. But there is still a gap in salary between male and female. From these statistics, we can see a gap in salary between male and female clearly. And it says that difference may be attributed to the fact that males are more likely than females to have characteristics associated with higher pay.


4. Tone, Andrea. "Industrial Revolution.(Era overview)." The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1998. Academic OneFile. Web. 21 Mar. 2010.

- This text is about how industrial revolution influenced on women’s life and wage. It shows industrialization in the antebellum era occurred as the result of two distinct processes. The first, the rise of the factory system, had its greatest impact on northern textile manufacture. The second, the development of the more labor-intensive sweating system, which kept production decentralized in households and small shops, was vital to the growth of the garment, hat, box, glove, and flower industries.

5. "As Women Toast Their Day." New Times [Kigali, Rwanda] 9 Mar. 2010. Academic OneFile. Web. 22 Mar. 2010.

- This text is explaining about how women developed their rights in society.