1. Betty Friedan, the Feminine Mystique. New York, NY: Norton, 1963

REFERENCES

Listed below are all statistical sources and almost all other references cited in this work. A few publications not given here are mentioned as required in the main text or footnotes. Beginning with item no. 4, the references are divided into three categories: official U.S. sources, relevant sources used by Friedan, and other sources cited in items included in either of the first two categories.

1. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique. New York, NY: Norton, 1963.

2. Betty Friedan, The Second Stage. New York, NY: Summit Books, 1981.

3. Ronald Gross, The Independent Scholar’s Handbook: How to Turn Your Interest in Any Subject into Expertise. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1982.

OFFICIAL U.S. SOURCES

I. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

A. General:

4. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957, 1960.

5. Occupational Trends in the United States, 1900-1950, Working Paper No. 5, 1958.

6.Statistical Abstract of the United States. [annual]

B. Current Population Survey (CPS) [numerous issues annually]:

7a. Series P-20 – Population Characteristics. Regularly issued titles included: Fertility, School Enrollment, Educational Attainment, Marital Status and Family Status.

7b. Series P-25 – Population Estimates.

7c. Series P-50 – Labor Force. Regularly issued titles included: Annual Report on the Labor Force, Marital and Family Characteristics of Workers, Educational Attainment of Workers, Work Experience. [discontinued in 1959; see next item]

7d. Special Labor Force Reports (SLFR) [replaced Series P-50 in 1959 (see preceding item); published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics using CPS data supplied by the Census Bureau]. Titles similar to those of Series P-50.

C. 1930 Census of Population:

8. Volume V, General Report on Occupations, chapter 4.

D. 1940 Census of Population:

9a. Volume III, The Labor Force – Occupation, Industry, Employment, and Income, Part 1, United States Summary.

9b.Volume IV, Characteristics by Age – Marital Status, Education, and Citizenship,Part 1, United States Summary.

9c.Comparative Occupation Statistics for the United States, 1870 to 1940.

9d. Differential Fertility, 1940 and 1910: Women by Number of Children Under 5 Years Old.

9e. Differential Fertility, 1940 and 1910: Women by Number of Children Ever Born.

9f. Educational Attainment by Economic Characteristics and Marital Status.

9g.Employment and Family Characteristics of Women.

9h.Employment and Personal Characteristics.

9i. Families – Employment Status – Regions and Cities of 1,000,000 or More.

9j. Occupational Characteristics.

E. 1950 Census of Population:

10a. Volume II, Characteristics of the Population, Part 1, United States Summary.

10b. Volume IV, No. 1B, Occupational Characteristics.

10c. Volume IV, No. 2A, General Characteristics of Families.

10d. Volume IV, No. 5A, Characteristics by Size of Place.

10e. Volume IV, No. 5B, Education.

10f. Volume IV, No. 5C, Fertility.

F. 1950 census monographs [prepared by the Social Science Research Council in cooperation with the Census Bureau. Published by John Wiley & Son, New York, NY]:

11. Bancroft, Gertrude. The American Labor Force: Its Growth and Composition, 1958.

12. Grabill, Wilson H., Clyde V. Kiser and Pascal K. Whelpton. The Fertility of American Women, 1958.

[see also item 28 below]

II. OFFICE OF EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

13. The Beginning Teacher – Preliminary Report, Circular 510, 1958.

14.Biennial Survey of Education.

15. Earned Degrees Conferred in Higher Educational Institutions. [annual]

16. Engineering Enrollments and Degrees. [annual]

17. Higher Education. [monthly magazine]

18. Home Economics in Degree-Granting Institutions. [biennial]

19.Opening Enrollment in Higher Educational Institutions. [annual; replaced beginning 1958 by following two items]

20. Opening (Fall) Enrollment in Higher Education, 19xx: Analytic Report. [annual]

21. Opening (Fall) Enrollment in Higher Education, 19xx: Institutional Data. [annual]

22. Preliminary Statistics of State School Systems. [biennial]

23. R.E. Iffert, Retention and Withdrawal of College Students, Bulletin 1958, No. 1, 1957.

24. Resident, Extension, and Other Enrollments in Institutions of Higher Education. [biennial]

25. Summary Report on Bachelor’s and Higher Degree Conferred During the Year 1959-60, 1961.

III. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE

A. National Office of Vital Statistics (beginning 1960, National Center for Health Statistics):

26. Monthly Vital Statistics Report.

27.Vital Statistics of the United States. [annual]

28. Vital Statistics – Special Reports. [various issues annually; published by Bureau of the Census until 1946]

B. Other:

29. The Eradication of Syphilis: A Task Force Report to the Surgeons General, Public Health Service, on Syphilis Control in the United States. Publication No. 918, January 1962.

30. Public Health Reports. [monthly]

31. Syphilis – Modern Diagnosis and Management. Publication No. 743, 1961.

32. V.D. Fact Sheet. [annual]

IV. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

33. The American Workers’ Fact Book. [irregular]

34. Employment and Economic Status of Older Men and Women. Bulletin No. 1213, 1956.

35. Monthly Labor Review.

36. Occupational Outlook Handbook. [biennial]

[see also item 7d above]

V. WOMEN’S BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

37. Equal Opportunities for Women in Professional Engineering, Bulletin No. 254, 1954.

38. Facts on Women Workers. [annual]

39. First Jobs of College Women – Report on Women Graduates, Class of 1957, Bulletin No. 268, 1959.

40. Handbook on Women Workers. [biennial]

41. “Older” Women as Office Workers, Bulletin No. 248, 1953.

VI. OTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

42. Annual Report, Administrator of Veterans Affairs.

43. Readjustment Benefits: General Survey and Appraisal. A Report on Veterans’ Benefits in the United States by The President’s Commission on Veterans’ Pensions. Staff Report No. IX, Parts A and B, 1956.

RELEVANT SOURCES USED BY FRIEDAN

44. “Alumnae on Parade”. The Barnard Alumnae Magazine. July, 1957.

45. “The Bright Girl: A Major Source of Untapped Talent”. Guidance Newsletter. Chicago, IL: Science Research Associates Inc. May, 1959.

46. Caplow, Theodore. Sociology of Work. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1954.

47. David, Opal D., ed. The Education of Women. Washington, DC: American Council on Education, 1959. [ACE conference report]

48. Jacob, Philip E. Changing Values in College. New York, NY: Harper, 1957.

49. Jones, Joseph M. Does Overpopulation Mean Poverty? Washington, DC: Center for International Economic Growth, 1962.

50. Journal of Social Issues. Vol. XII, No. 4 (1956).

51. Komarovsky, Mirra. “Cultural Contradictions and Sex Roles”. The American Journal of Sociology. November, 1946.

52. Komarovsky, Mirra. Women in the Modern World. Boston, Mass: Little, Brown, 1953.

53. Lloyd-Jones, Esther, “Women Today and Their Education”. Teachers’ College Record, October, 1955.

54. Myrdal, Alva and Viola Klein. Women’s Two Roles: Home and Work. London: Routledge and Paul, 1956.

55. National Manpower Council. Womanpower. New York: Columbia University Press, 1957.

56. Nevitt, Sanford, ed. The American College. New York: John Wiley & Son, 1962.

57. Newcomer, Mabel. A Century of Higher Education for American Woman. New York, NY: Harper, 1959.

58. Statistical Office of the United Nations. Demographic Yearbook. New York, NY. [annual]

59. “To See Ourselves”. Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly. Summer, 1962.

60. Wolfle, Dael. America’s Resources of Specialized Talent. New York, NY: Harper, 1954.

61. Wood, Robert C. Suburbia, Its People and Their Politics. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.

SOURCES CITED IN THOSE LISTED ABOVE

62. American Bar Foundation. American Lawyer Statistical Report. [cited in 6, various editions]

63. Coale, Ansley J. and Edgar J. Hoover. Population Growth and Economic Development in Low-Income Countries, A Case Study of India’s Prospects. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958. [cited in 58, 1960, p. 3]

64. Committee on Graduate Education, Radcliffe College. Graduate Education for Women: The Radcliffe Ph.D. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1956. [cited in 47, p. 47, and 57, p. 201-2]

65. Duncan, Otis Dudley and Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Social Characteristics of Urban and Rural Communities, 1950. New York, NY: John Wiley & Son, 1956. [cited in 61]

66. Freedman, Ronald, Pascal K. Whelpton and Arthur A. Campbell. Family Planning, Sterility, and Population Growth. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1959. [cited in 7b, No. 187 and 28, Vol. 51, No. 1]

67. Havemann, Ernest and Patricia Salter West. They Went to College. New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1952. [several citations; see Part II, note 35]

68. Lloyd-Jones, Esther, “The Commission on the Education of Women – Since 1955.” The Educational Record. July, 1957. [cited in 47, Bibliography, p. 141]

69. Long, Clarence D. The Labor Force Under Changing Income and Employment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958. [cited in 4, p. 67]

70. UNESCO, World Survey of Education. Paris. Volume I (1955), volume II (1958), volume III (1961). [cited in 55, Bibliography, p. 360.]

71. Wright, Wendell W. and Christian W. Jung. “Why Capable High School Students Do Not Continue Their Schooling”. Bulletin of the School of Education. Indiana University. Vol. 35, No. 1, January, 1959. [cited in 45]

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