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Archive 1 – covering old discussions beginning in 2007

Women in the Workforce was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 18 April 2021 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Women in the workforce. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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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)[reply]

Notes: Searching Amazon for "women in the professions" leads to more than 9,760 items on the topic, mostly books. [1] 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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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.

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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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)[reply]

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 Wikipedia:List of bibliographies? Biogeographist (talk) 17:52, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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citations

I added inline citations where it was marked as inline citations needed. --Gaquach (talk) 12:50, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]