Women at Duke University

Some background materials about women and labor both at Duke University and in Durham: 

• Greene, Christina. Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

• Ludwig, Erik. "Closing in on the 'Plantation': Coalition Building and the Role of Black Women's Grievances in Duke University Labor Disputes, 1965-1968." Feminist Studies. Vol. 25, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 79-94.

• Sacks, Karen Brodkin. Caring by the Hour: Women, Work, and Organizing at Duke Medical Center. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1988.

Some materials about women and labor at Duke University are below. For more general information about labor and employee relations at Duke, refer to this libguide. 

College Organization for General Service records, 1940 - 1949

• This collection includes wartime era records, including women in the workforce. 

Career Center Office records, 1938-2000 

• Contains speeches, some directed towards women either entering the workforce or supporting spouses in the workforce. 

Woman's College records, 1928-1974

• Box 34: Job Placements
• Box 36: Job Opportunities for Women
• Box 37: Placement Office