Women's Legal and Occupational Status

Background Information
• United Nations Yearbook [Library]
  • Doc.Cen JX 1976 .A1 U64--UN Ref.
  • Most complete summary of United Nations activities with citations to or reprints of the most important United Nations documents
• UN Chronicle [Library]
  • Doc.Cen. JX 1977.A1 U6--UN Ref.
  • Quarterly summary of major issues before the United Nations
  • Includes selected citations to UN documents but seldom reprints
Types of United Nations Documents
• Official Records [Library]
  • Texts of General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council proceedings
  • Includes speeches by delegates and resolutions
  • Each set has own index by subject and country for each year
  • Identify UN series number (e.g. A/45/PV.12, S/RES/242) and ask at Documents Desk for assistance in locating paper copy or microfiche
  • Location Guide for Official Records
  • Text of most current General Assembly, ECOSOC and Security Council resolutions on Readex CD-ROM and UN System Web Site or the UN Gopher
• Mimeographed publications [Library]
  • Draft letters and resolutions submitted by delegates to UN
  • Identify using CD-ROM index; ask at Documents Desk for paper or microfiche copies
• CD-ROM Index to United Nations Publications [Library]
  • Indexes all mimeographed publications and Official Records beginning 1983
  • Level 1 is a keyword index (e.g. women and "human rights")
  • Level 2 permits field limitations by subject, date, country author and type of document
  • Guide to the Readex CD-ROM
    • Identify publication number (e.g. A/AC.131/L.6) and ask at Documents Center Desk for assistance in locating paper copy or microfiche
• United Nations Sales Publications [Web and Library]
  • Books, statistical compendiums, special studies and conference reports
  • Identify publication and call number in MIRLYN
Commission on the Elimination of Discimination Against Women [Web]
• Full text of documents from the United Nations and its subsidiary agencies, such as the International Labor Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization
• Text of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
• Indexes of country reports with citations to publications in the Documents Center
Commission on the Status of Women [Web]
• Full text of the Commission's annual report to the Economic and Social Council, 1992+
• Official commission documents beginning 1994
United Nations Web Site [Web]
• Basic information on the United Nations (history, charter, member countries)
• Press releases, daily highlights
• General Assembly, ECOSOC, and Security Council publications and resolutions (not indexed); see the UNDCP web site for indexing
• Major conference documents, catalog of UN sales publications, audio-visual material
United Nations International Computing Center [Web]
• Well-organized list of United Nations system web and gopher sites
United Nations System (UNDCP) [Web]
• Includes the texts of UN resolutions (indexed) nd press releases from international conferences
• Considerable information on developing countries
• Gopher and web sites of the various UN departments, affiliated agencies, and conferences
• Gopher site alternative if web site is difficult to load on your workstation

Employment

Country Economic Policy and Trade Practices (U.S. State Department) [Web]
• Evaluation of each country's economic policy for the past five years
• Includes basic statistics for past three years
Statistical Record of Women Worldwide [Library]
• Chapters on attitudes, business, crime, domestic life, education, health, income, labor, military service, population, and politics
• Focus on U.S. but some international comparative data
World's Women [Library]
• Country statistics on family and public life, health, housing, and sports
• Employment data by occupation compares females as a percent of males in that occupation
• Doc.Cen. HQ 1154 .W95 1991
Yearbook of International Labor Statistics [Library}
• Country data on employmnent, unemployment, wages, prices, industry, strikes and lockouts
• Occupational data for women by broad categories: professional, administrative, clerical, sales, service, agriculture, and production
• Doc.Cen. HD 4826 .I59--Stat.Ref.
Statistical Masterfile CD-ROM Guide (UMich) [Library]
• Indexes federal, state, business, and international statistics
• Sample search: women and by.occupation and by.foreign country
• CD-ROM index and corresponding microfiche in Documents Center

Laws Regarding Women

Federal
• Constitution via Cornell Law School [Web]
  • Original text of Constitution with hyperlinks to amendments
• United States Code (via House Internet Law Library) [Web]
  • Subject approach to all laws in force as of Jan. 4, 1993
  • Several keyword search options
  • For Boolean searching, indicate a phrase by placing "adj" between the words (eg. medicare and home adj health adj services)
  • Summaries of selected subsequent laws
  • Also available in paper copy in the Documents center: KF 62 .A2 - Ref.
State Laws
• LEXIS [Library]
  • Most complete source for state laws as well asarticles appearing in U.S. and foreign newspapers
  • Keyword indexing permits full Boolean operators, proximity indicators, and limitations by date
  • Click here for LEXIS search protocols and click here for a sample newspaper search
  • Full text may be downloaded or printed one screen at a time
  • Limited to University of Michigan class assignments
• State and Local Government via Piper Resources [Web]
  • Comprehensive link for state government web sites, updated daily
  • Links to federal and non-government national organizations serving state and local governments
• State Government via Indiana University [Web]
  • Well-organized list of state government web and gopher sites
• State Law and Government (Washburn University Law Library) [Web]
  • Links to main state government web sites and constitutions
  • Links to state laws, legislative information, court decisions, and Congressional delegation web sites as available
• StateSearch (National Association of State Information Resource Executives) [Web]
  • Subject arrangement of state government web sites and publications
• National Survey of State Laws [Library]
  • Charts compare 50 states on abortion, alimony and child custody

Directories of Officials

United States
• United States Government Manual, 1995/96 (GPO Access UCalif/San Diego) [Web]
  • Directory of agencies and officials, primarily in the Executive Branch
  • Describes agency activity and cites legislative authority
  • Searchable by keyword
• Federal Yellow Book [Library]
  • Detailed telephone directory to the federal government with indexes
  • Updated quarterly
  • Doc.Cen. JK 6 .F2931 - Ref. Desk
State Yellow Book [Library]
• Detailed telephone directory of the 50 states
• Subject index
• Doc. Cen. JK 2443 .S791 - Ref. Desk

Employment Statistics

Census Bureau [Library]
• Equal Employment Opportunity CD-ROM
  • Employment for major occupational categories as well as 514 individual occupations by sex
  • Data for U.S., states, and places of 50,000+
  • Located in the Documents Center
• Census Bureau Web Site [Web]
  • Publications:
    • Press releases of current demographic, economic, and housing trends
    • Historic income and poverty data; national population projections
    • 1990 Census Summary Tape Files 1A,1C,1D,3A-3D data for the nation, counties, cities, urbanized areas, metropolitan statistical areas, Congressional Districts, and zip codes
    • Survey of Income and Program Participation, Current Population Survey, American Housing Survey, and Consumer Expenditure Survey manipulable files
  • Census Data Locator: 1990 (Web Version - UMich)
    • Step-by-step guide to identify variable, geography, and corresponding print, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, or Internet source
Department of Labor
• Employment and Earnings [Library]
  • Monthly report on employment and unemployment with data classified by sex
  • Includes occupation, industry, and marital status
  • Doc. Cen. HD 8051 .A813--Stat.Ref.
• LABSTAT: Labor Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) [Web]
  • Press releases on employment, earnings, and collective bargaining
  • Coded time series on employment, prices, and productivity
Statistical Masterfile CD-ROM Guide (UMich) [Library]
• Indexes federal, state, business, and international statistics
• Sample search: women and by.occupation and by.state
• CD-ROM index and corresponding microfiche in Documents Center

Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
University of Michigan Library
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles
Send suggestions to graceyor@umich.edu

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/women.html

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