Collection breakdown
The Walden University Library contains a large, diverse collection of books, journals, and other materials related to women's studies. Scroll down to view the collection, which has been broken down into subject areas and material types.
Note: The materials listed below are by no means an exhaustive representation of the materials found in the Walden University Library. Presented below is a curated list of resources designed to highlight aspects of our collection that relate directly to women's studies.
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Women's studies journals
Not sure where to start? Check out the following journals, which have a broad focus and cover a range of topics related to women's studies.
- Asian Journal of Women's Studies
- Black Women, Gender & Families
- European Journal of Women's Studies
- Feminist Africa
- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
- Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies
- Gender & History
- Gender Issues
- Gender, Place & Culture
- Gender Studies & Research
- Indian Journal of Gender Studies
- Journal of Asian Women's Studies
- Journal of Gender Studies
- Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Journal of Women's History
- Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
- Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues
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Business & management
- Barriers encountered by African American women executives
- Barriers to successful entrepreneurship for women in Ukraine
- Career mobility patterns of aspiring female leaders at California community colleges
- Exploring general career barriers and self-constructed career impediments of minority women managers and leaders
- Exploring how women on corporate boards cope with gender bias
- The lack of African American women CEOs in corporate America: A qualitative phenomenological study
- Leadership advancement and mentoring of women Into chief financial officer roles
- Lived experiences of women over 50 who have experienced involuntary job loss
- Mentoring, networking, and role modeling opportunities between men and women in management positions
- Midcareer women leaving information technology: An examination of the phenomenon
- Perceptions of role conflict and workplace stress among women working in two traditionally male professions
- Profitability and the financial strategies of women-owned small businesses
- Relationships between women's glass ceiling beliefs, career advancement satisfaction, and quit intention
- The role of motivation in financing women-owned businesses
- Securing government contracts for women-owned small businesses
- Success factors for women of color information technology leaders in corporate America
- Women entrepreneurs: Keys to successful business development and sustainability beyond five years
- Women in the governor's mansion: How party and gender affect policy agendas
- Women's quest to occupy executive positions in corporate America
- Advancing Women in Leadership
- Equal Opportunities International
- Executive Female
- Gender in Management: An International Journal
- Gender, Work & Organization
- IEEE Women in Engineering
- International Journal of Discrimination and the Law
- International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
- Journal of Business Diversity
- Journal of Employment Discrimination Law
- Journal of Workplace Rights
- Marketing to Women
- Women in Business
- Women in Management Review
- ABCs of women workers' rights and gender equality
- Analyzing information on women-owned small businesses in federal contracting
- The best-kept secret: Women, corporate lobbyists, policy, and power in the United States
- Bodies in revolt: Gender, disability, and a workplace ethic of care
- Civilizing capitalism: The National Consumers' League, women's activism, and labor standards in the New Deal Era
- Developments in gender and management research in Central and Eastern Europe
- Disappearing acts: Gender, power and relational practice at work
- Equal opportunities and ethnic inequality in European labour markets: Discrimination, gender and policies of diversity
- Gender and choice in education and occupation
- Gender and entrepreneurship: An ethnographic approach
- Gender and management: Lessons from recent research
- Gender and sexuality in the workplace
- Gender and work in capitalist economies
- Gender equality and decent work: Good practices at the workplace
- Gender, work stress, and health
- Gender-sensitive approaches for the extractive industry in Peru: Improving the impact on women in poverty and their families
- Geography of immigrant labor markets: Space, networks, and gender
- The glass ceiling in the 21st century: Understanding barriers to gender equality
- Leadership and the sexes: Using gender science to create success in business
- Market dreams: Gender, class, and capitalism in the Czech Republic
- The new CEOs: Women, African American, Latino and Asian American leaders of fortune 500 Companies
- Politics of parental leave policies: Children, parenting, gender and the labour market
- Earnings by Demographic – U.S. Department of Labor
- Economic Empowerment - International Center for Research on Women
- Employment Characteristics of Families – Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Employment, Discrimination, and Economic Change - The Institute for Women’s Policy Research
- Equal Pay – U.S. Department of Labor
- Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment – USAID
- Gender, Equity and Human Rights - World Health Organization
- Gender Statistics – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
- Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women – Women Watch United Nations
- Maternity Leave and Employment Patterns of First-Time Mothers 1961-2008 – U.S. Census Bureau
- Minority Businesses by Gender – Minority Business Development Agency
- Mothers and Families – U.S. Department of Labor
- Sexual Harassment – Equal Opportunity Employment Commission
- UN Women – United Nations
- Women-Owned Businesses – U.S. Census Bureau
- Women’s Bureau Data and Statistics – U.S. Department of Labor
- Women’s Business Development Center
- Workplace – National Women’s Law Center
Counseling, psychology, & social work
- Attitudes of women offenders towards Medicaid enrollment and coverage under the Affordable Care Act
- Direct care provider perceptions of factors influencing treatment motivation of dual-diagnosed female offenders
- Domestic minor sex trafficking and social work practice
- Effect of gender on attitudes toward female sexual offenders
- The effects of female genital mutilation on women of Sierra Leone
- An examination of factors contributing to the effectiveness of female administrators in corrections
- Experience with social support systems among women exposed to intimate partner violence in Cameroon
- Family continuity and multiple incarcerations among African American women
- Female parents' attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions about youth gun crimes
- Female police officers' perceptions and experiences with marginalization: A phenomenological study
- The gender-responsive approach for the female delinquent
- Gender-specific programming and quality improvement ratings of Florida residential delinquency programs for girls
- The impact of gender and focal concerns theory on the treatment of white-collar defendants by federal judges
- The impact of religiosity and gender on attitudes toward juvenile sex offenders
- The intersection of race, gender and the school to prison pipeline: A case study on the impact of exclusionary discipline on African American girls
- Keeping the children: Nonviolent women offenders in two Michigan residential programs
- Policemoms: Perceptions of motherhood and policy in Ohio police organizations
- Predictors of community supervision failures among female offenders
- Skills women bring to the position of chief of police
- Why not UNO? Social disorganization and sexual violence among internally displaced women of Hurricane Katrina
- Adolescence, sexuality, and the criminal law: Multidisciplinary perspectives
- Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, sex, and revolution in the Philippines
- Battered women and their families: Intervention strategies and treatment programs
- Beyond violence: A prevention program for criminal justice-involved women
- Black women's experiences of criminal justice: A discourse on disadvantage
- The domestic assault of women: Psychological and criminal justice perspectives
- Emotionally involved: The impact of researching rape
- The female offender
- Gender-inclusive treatment of intimate partner abuse, second edition: Evidence-based approaches
- Gendered justice: Intimate partner violence and the criminal justice system
- In the adopted land: Abused immigrant women and the criminal justice system
- Interrogating imperialism: Conversations on gender, race, and war
- Mad or bad?: Race, class, gender, and mental disorder in the criminal justice system
- Muscular nationalism: Gender, violence, and empire in India and Ireland
- Offending women: Female lawbreakers and the criminal justice system
- Rape work: Victims, gender, and emotions in organization and community context
- Rethinking the man question: Sex, gender and violence in international relations
- Supporting women after domestic violence: Loss, trauma and recovery
- Understanding violence against women
- Violence against women in South Asian communities: Issues for policy and practice
- Violence and gender reexamined
- Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment – USAID
- Gender, Equity and Human Rights - World Health Organization
- Gender Statistics – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
- Judges and Courts – National Women’s Law Center
- National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence against Women – U.S. Department of Justice
- Sexual Victimization of College Women – U.S. Department of Justice
- UN Women – United Nations
- Violence Against Women - International Center for Research on Women
- Violence Against Women – Women Watch United Nations
- Women and Armed Conflict – Women Watch United Nations
- Women’s Bureau Data and Statistics – U.S. Department of Labor
Education
- Campus behavior coordinators' perspectives of student discipline among females in middle school
- Challenges of experienced nurses in a full-time online RN-BS nursing program
- The connection between wellness programs and employee job satisfaction in higher education
- Differentiating successful and unsuccessful nursing students
- Education and the development of on-farm identity: Dairy farm women's experiences
- Educators' perceptions of characteristics of male and female bullies
- Effects of single-gender and coeducational learning environments on middle school mathematics achievement
- Effects of single-gender classes on student literacy and engagement
- Experiences of African American young women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education
- Longevity and women superintendents
- Nurse educators' perspectives of supplemental computer-assisted formative assessment in an associate degree nursing program
- Nursing faculty perceptions of and responses to student incivility
- Perceptions of recent male nursing graduates regarding gender bias and gender-based educational barriers
- Phenomenological study of empowering women senior leaders in higher education
- Preschool educators' roles in creating supportive spaces for gender exploration and expression
- The relationship between self-efficacy and advanced STEM coursework in female secondary students
- Saudi women's experiences of control and engagement as employees in private universities
- The self-perception and campus experiences of traditional age female Muslim American students
- Single-gender education at an urban middle school
- Teachers' experiences with and perceptions of single-gender instruction of African American students
- Women in STEM: The effect of undergraduate research on persistence
- Academic careers and the gender gap
- Changing landscape of academic women's health care in the United States
- Clio in the classroom: A guide for teaching U.S. women's history
- Coloring outside the lines: Mentoring women Into school leadership
- Creating gender-fair schools, classrooms and colleges: Engendering social justice For 14- to 19-year-olds
- Do babies matter?: Gender and family in the ivory tower
- Feminism and the classroom teacher: Research, praxis, pedagogy
- Gender and choice in education and occupation
- Gender and diversity in a problem and project based learning environment
- Gender and racial differences in vocational education
- Gender, colonialism and education: The politics of experience
- Gender differences at critical transitions in the careers of science, engineering, and mathematics faculty
- Gender in policy and practice: Perspectives on single sex and coeducational schooling
- Learning the hard way: Masculinity, place, and the gender gap in education
- Men and the classroom: Gender imbalances in teaching
- Modeling mentoring across race/ethnicity and gender: Practices to cultivate the next generation of diverse faculty
- Pathways to higher education administration for African American women
- Race and gender in the classroom: Teachers, privilege, and enduring social inequalities
- Reading, writing, and gender: Instructional strategies and classroom activities that work for girls and boys
- Reading, writing, and talking gender in literacy learning
- Sexuality, gender and schooling: Shifting agendas in social learning
- Sociology, gender and educational aspirations: Girls and their ambitions
- Teaching Black girls: Resiliency in urban classrooms
- Teaching gender and multicultural awareness: Resources for the psychology classroom
- Towards gender equity in mathematics education: An ICMI study
- Child Care and Early Learning – National Women’s Law Center
- Civil Rights in Education Data – U.S. Department of Education
- Education and Title IX – National Women’s Law Center
- Education and Training of Women – Women Watch United Nations
- Employment, Discrimination, and Economic Change - The Institute for Women’s Policy Research
- Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment – USAID
- Gender, Equity and Human Rights - World Health Organization
- Gender Statistics – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
- International Center for Research on Women
- Sexual Victimization of College Women – U.S. Department of Justice
- Student Demographics – U.S. Department of Education
- Trends in Educational Equity of Girls & Women – National Center for Education Statistics Report
- UN Women – United Nations
- Women’s Bureau Data and Statistics – U.S. Department of Labor
Health sciences & nursing
- Acceptability and usability of self-collected sampling for HPV testing among African-American women living in the Mississippi Delta
- Alcohol consumption and cervical cancer associations among women in Los Angeles, California
- Can nurse-facilitated support groups foster self-awareness?
- Challenges of experienced nurses in a full-time online RN-BS nursing program
- A community health program to reduce cardiovascular risk in women
- A comparison of lifestyle intervention sessions and clinical screening as motivators in the South Dakota WISEWOMAN program
- Completion of preventive health care actions by older women with HIV/AIDS
- Differences in breast cancer tumor size, stage, and survival by socioeconomic position in young women
- Differentiating successful and unsuccessful nursing students
- The effects of female genital mutilation on women of Sierra Leone
- Evaluating the role of nurses in educating women during the preconception period
- Examining HIV-Related attitudes and behaviors among Haitian immigrant women in Florida
- The experience of menopause as reported by sedentary women
- Female circumcision: A phenomenological study of Somalian immigrant to the United States
- Health care professionals' perceptions of media influence on eating disorder-related factors among African American women
- Health-related beliefs among low-income African American women and their perceptions about obesity
- Heroes or victims: The lived experiences of women on female genital mutilation/cutting in northwestern Nigeria
- Identifying the beliefs and barriers to mammography in rural African women
- Knowledge of malaria infection and treatment-seeking behavior among Tanzanian pregnant women
- Nurse educators' perspectives of supplemental computer-assisted formative assessment in an associate degree nursing program
- Nurse-to-nurse end of shift report
- Perceptions of infertility among Arab women in the U.S
- Predictors and moderators of sexual distress in women with persistent genital arousal disorder
- Pregnant obese women and factors which impact their social and physiological well-being
- Psychological stress in critical care nurses
- A qualitative analysis of migrant women farmworkers’ perceptions of maternal care management
- What are the perspectives of osteoporosis screening among Black women?
- Women and coronary artery disease
- The Breast Journal
- Case Reports in Women's Health
- Clinical Medicine: Reproductive Health
- Harvard Women's Health Watch
- Health Care for Women International
- International Journal of Women's Dermatology
- International Journal of Women's Health
- Journal of Gynecologic Oncology
- Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing
- Journal of Pregnancy
- Journal of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health
- Journal of Reproduction & Infertility
- Journal of Women's Health
- NEJM Journal Watch Women's Health
- Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Pregnancy Hypertension: An International Journal of Women's Cardiovascular Health
- Advanced health assessment of women: Clinical skills and procedures
- Bathsheba's breast: Women, cancer & history
- Breastfeeding handbook for physicians
- Changing landscape of academic women's health care in the United States
- Compact clinical guide to women's pain management: An evidence-based approach for nurses
- Contraception today: A pocketbook for general practitioners
- Diabetes mellitus in women: Adolescence, pregnancy, and menopause
- Essential midwifery practice: Public health
- Globalization, women, and health in the 21st century
- Guidelines for nurse practitioners in gynecologic settings
- The Handbook of midwifery research
- Handbook of women's health: An evidence-based approach
- High-risk and critical care obstetrics
- Labor and delivery nursing: A guide to evidence-based practice
- Medical disorders in pregnancy
- Out of the dead house: Nineteenth-century women physicians and the writing of medicine
- Oxford handbook of women’s health nursing
- Rural women's health: Mental, behavioral, and physical issues
- Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine
- Sympathy & science: Women physicians in American medicine
- A woman's disease: The history of cervical cancer
- Women at war: The story of fifty military nurses who served in Vietnam
- Women’s health care in advanced practice nursing
- Women’s health needs in patient education
- Breast Cancer Statistics - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Cervical Cancer - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment – USAID
- Gender, Equity and Human Rights - World Health Organization
- Gender Statistics – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
- Health Care and Reproductive Rights – National Women’s Law Center
- Health Equity – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Office on Women’s Health – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights - International Center for Research on Women
- UN Women – United Nations
- Women and Health – Women Watch United Nations
- Women’s Bureau Data and Statistics – U.S. Department of Labor
- Women’s Health – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Public policy & administration
- Exploring the leadership strategies of women of the 111th Congress
- The impact of gender and focal concerns theory on the treatment of white-collar defendants by federal judges
- Perceptions of women in political leadership positions in Nigeria
- Reducing maternal and child morbidity and mortality through project recommendations
- Securing government contracts for women-owned small businesses
- Women in the governor's mansion: How party and gender affect policy agendas
- American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law
- ANTYAJAA: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change
- Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
- Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy
- International Feminist Journal of Politics
- Politics & Gender
- Race, Gender & Class
- Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society
- Texas Journal of Women, Gender, and the Law
- Woman Advocate
- Women and Politics
- Women's Policy Journal of Harvard
- Women's Rights Law Reporter
- Yale Journal of Law & Feminism
- The Best-kept secret: Women, corporate lobbyists, policy, and power in the United States
- Between law and politics: The solicitor general and the structuring of race, gender, and reproductive rights litigation
- Child care policy at the crossroads: Gender and welfare state restructuring
- Constituting workers, protecting women: Gender, law and labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal years
- Gender and American politics: Women, men and the political process
- Gender and the political opportunities of democratization in South Korea
- Gender, development and globalization: Economics as if all people mattered
- Gender, ethnicity and political ideologies
- Gender, politics and the state
- Gender, race and nationalism in contemporary Black politics
- Human rights and gender politics: Asia-Pacific perspectives
- Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state: Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
- Market dreams: Gender, class, and capitalism in the Czech Republic
- Opposing currents: The politics of water and gender in Latin America
- Politics of sexuality: Identity, gender, citizenship
- The private roots of public action: Gender, equality, and political participation
- Rethinking the man question: Sex, gender and violence in international relations
- Voting the gender gap
- Women in developing countries: A reference handbook
- Diversity and Inclusion Reports – U.S. Office of Personnel Management
- Economic Empowerment - International Center for Research on Women
- Education and Title IX – National Women’s Law Center
- Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment – USAID
- Gender, Equity and Human Rights - World Health Organization
- Gender Statistics – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
- Health Equity – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- The Institute for Women’s Policy Research
- International Center for Research on Women
- International Instruments and Treaty Bodies – Women Watch United Nations
- Judges and Courts – National Women’s Law Center
- Poverty and Economic Security – National Women’s Law Center
- Sexual Harassment – Equal Opportunity Employment Commission
- UN Women – United Nations
- Women and Poverty – Women Watch United Nations
- Women’s Bureau Data and Statistics – U.S. Department of Labor