Jynx Guthrie

Kelly Blad
UWRITE 02
10/12/16
Annotated Bibliography
Cite 1. Popular
Kellam, J. C. "The Changing Role of Women." Texasstate.edu. N.p., 21 Oct. 2002. Web. 28
Sept. 2016.
"Biography." Denise M. Trauth Biography. Texas State University, n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.
Summary
The Changing Role of Women
This source is a written release of Texas State University President, Denise Trauth to the HaysCaldwell Womens Center on October 10th of 2002. She speaks at length about how women have
changed in the business world and in the home. She specifies her speech toward the end to focus
on womens role in the media and how that role has and has not changed. Throughout she
references ways that womens roles have not changed, despite other advances. She spoke at the
university of Texas State and this source comes from their Office of Media Relations, where her
speech was recorded and written onto their website. Denise Trauth is the president of Texas State
University and has attended college at Mount St. Joseph University, Ohio State University, and
the University of Iowa, which gives her a pretty legitimate voice for how women have changed
over the last 50 years, since shes a woman in a leadership positiona position that 50 years ago
she would likely have never had the chance to hold.
Evaluate
The source comes from a university website, so that holds some creditable weight. Dr. Trauth is
extremely passionate, but as all opinions are, hers is bias. The facts and statistics in this are 14
years hold, so I would be interested to compare her statistics with more current stats. The source
is both academic but also popular, because its credited by a university and is a written statement
of Dr. Trauths speech. The intended audience is Has-Caldwell Womens Center, but on the
website its addressed to the women of the media relations department at Texas State. According
to Dr. Trauths bio on the Texas Universitys website, Trauth earned a bachelors degree in
English at the College of Mount St. Joseph, a masters degree in journalism at The Ohio State

University, and a Ph.D. in mass communications at The University of Iowa. Her vast education
makes her speech more validated because she comes from a highly educated background.
Usefulness
This source can be used to compare statistics from the 1970s to 2002, and with additional
research, to current statistics of 2016. This source was helpful in pointing out evenly how roles
have changed and how they have not as of 2002, however I can only use these in comparison to
new/more recent information that I still need to find. This showed me that its best to highlight
how much we have changed by telling my audience how we have not changed. This source will
probably appear in my paper as a comparative piece of argument.

Cite 2. Journal
Pai, Kalpana, and Sameer Vaidya. "Glass Ceiling: Role of Women in the Corporate World."
Competitiveness Review. 19.2 (2009). Print.
Summary
The purpose of this study is to examine the existence of the glass ceiling in Texas. Thus states
the beginning sentence of the articles abstract. About 20 years ago, the term glass ceiling was
coined by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women and
minorities from reaching the top of the corporate hierarchy. Several studies, both academic and
governmental, have shown that despite the efforts to increase diversity, women still face the glass
ceiling when it comes to top management jobs in the private sector, may it be chief executive
officers (CEOs) or board members.
The article gives comparison of women in the business world from 1995 to 2006, and several
years between the two. It offers a lot of statistics regarding the positions men hold and compares
those to the number of women holding positions in the work force. It goes on to say that in the
UK women under 35 were less likely to experience the glass ceiling effect than women over the
age of 35. The article compares women from all over the world, not just in America.
Evaluate
The article focuses heavily, if not entirely, on women in the workforce. It does a fine job of
comparing countries and highlighting how women have changed and grown in each country and
the article even goes so far to compare these. The article compares a lot of statistics, of both men
and women, which helps the article come across as less bias. The article focuses a lot on jobs, the
presence of them and the lack there of. However, it does a wonderful job of providing statistics
for many different positions, such as how many women were in the workforce compared to men

in a given year compared to how many men were in leadership positions of said companies. It
also gives reasons for why the glass ceiling is in effecttradition and religion being two of them.
Overall the article does not seem to be overly bias; its rather full of facts and numbers instead of
opinions. However, the authors personal feelings on the matter are displayed in the use of terms
like relegated and menial when describing jobs allowed for women. The source seems to be
very reliable, with many other sources credited at the bottom of the article and cited throughout.
It reads very academically.
Usefulness
In terms of my own paper, I hope to use the statistics from this article to help illuminate the past
business struggles women have encountered over the last 50 years. Some of the questions I had
involved why women were marrying later in life to pursue careers and education instead of a
family. By highlighting how women have struggled to make ground in the business world, I can
illuminate some reasons behind why women are focused more on their careers now instead of
immediately starting families. I think that the facts in this article will help me to illustrate the
thought process behind some women who wish to wait later in life to have children. This article
will also help bright to light some statistics that my first source was unable to provide. I will be
able to compare American women to the women of other countries as far as how little or much
we have progressed over the years statistics wise.

Cite 3. Side 1
Gordon, B. (2016). CONSIDERING HOUSEWORK: AN UNEVEN ANTHOLOGY. Feminist
Collections, 37(1), 7-8. Web. 10 Oct. 2016.
Patton, Elizabeth, and Mimi Choi. Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern
Relationships. , 2014. Print.
Summary
I have cited both the book and the review Im citing here. The review is the first and the book its
expanding upon is the second. The review is from the perspective of Beverly Gordon, who writes
reviews on ProQuest under the Feminists Collections. She wrote this review in Winter/Spring
2016) which makes this my most recent source. The review reflects upon the book, Home Sweat
Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships, written in 2014. The book is a
collection of essays which Gordon comments upon in her review. The book shes reviewing is
about the history of relationship dynamics in the house, pinpointed to the issue of housework.
Evaluate

I have chosen a review as my third source so that I may have two sources in one: the first, the
book with many articles to which Gordon is referring, and second, the review itself which is
riddled with Gordons personal opinion and therefore her bias. She has outlined the flaws and
strengths she finds in the book and while her findings are mostly opinion, there are some facts
she shares with her readers.
She begins her review with this:
I grew up in the 1950s and came of age in the heady consciousness-raising phase of
second-wave feminism. I was acutely aware of expected gender roles, and it was a given
that my partners and I would share housework. My scholarship focused on issues related
to "background history" and the often-trivialized realities of the domestic sphere.
Nevertheless, I still struggled through the years with inconsistencies - push-pulls between
my ideals, preferences, and experiences. So it was exciting recently to encounter a
volume devoted to attitudes about housework.
Out of the gate she has established herself as someone older than I am, which is good for keeping
perspective. Beverly Gordon is Professor Emeritus in the Design Studies Department at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning,
Domestic Objects, Women's Lives, 1890-1940. This gives her review a better weigh and accents
that she is not only scholarly but also an active feminist herself.
Usefulness
I love the juxtaposition of Professor Gordon and my following source, The Washington Times
editor. Both are women from educated backgrounds and both have vastly different views of what
the modern woman is and should be. Gordon also mentions womens portrayal in the media as
she read about it in the book, which will lead into some other research I would like to reflect
upon in my paper. For instance, I met an actress who previously played a role on the sitcom
Scrubs through my Majors and Minors seminar class, and she told us that for every 1 woman
on screen there are 4 men. These are issues and topics that Gordon reflects on and that I would
very much like to include in my paper.

Cite 4. Side 2 The Humble Woman

Shiner, By Josette S. ""Role of Women in the 21st Century" by Josette S. Shiner." "Role of
Women in the 21st Century" by Josette S. Shiner. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Oct. 2016.
"Josette Sheeran." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2016.
Summary

This source is from a speech given by Josette S. Shiner on Role of Women in the 21st Century.
It is an excerpt from the address given on the role of women in America by The Washington
Times editor herself.
The sum of this speech is that women do not have to work to be equal to men, they are special in
their own way. Our value will be in honoring our womanhood and femininity, and offering to
the world the wisdom that is held in this other, vital half of humanity. The article preaches the
humble position of women who choose families over jobs and who choose care over ambition.
She states that, when I meet with other women in media and in politics many of whom gave up
having a family to pursue their goals I find them asking themselves whether their career
achievements really add up to the sum of a successful life. This assists her point that women
have their own place in the world.
Additionally, she goes on to speak about leadership women can have in their communities and
starving children around the world. She emphasizes that there are many children going hungry
and she asks her audience to take a stand against that hunger.
Evaluate
This is by far the most bias source I have come across yet. The speaker clearly dislikes feminists,
is extremely religious, and follows closely to a more traditional Southern woman in America.
She uses terms like bitter feminists and uses tactics to draw her audience in, such as
reminiscing on when her first child was born. The website is a Christian website that is pretty
basically laid out. It appears that just about anyone can write an article on this website and thats
great because it gives me insight to many different womens opinions on different topics- though
I will only be using this woman to quote in my paper. There is the issue of this article not having
a date for when it was written. It both adds and takes from my paper, though. I could argue that
because its not dated Im left to speculate if this woman represents a more modern conservative
view or an older view. Either way I think her voice is valuable to my conversation because
womens issues have largely been the same over the last couple years and her reasoning is still
current and used often by more traditional southern women in America. According to
Wikipedia, During her tenure as managing editor of the Washington Times, she appeared as a
commentator on programs such as Nightline, Fox news, The McLaughlin Group, The Diane
Rehm Show, and CNN. Sheeran also wrote a nationally syndicated column for Scripps Howard
News Service. She has had interviews with more than a dozen heads of state in Europe, Asia,
Latin America and the United States, most famously her interview with North Korean head of
state Kim Il Sung. She has twice served as a Pulitzer prize juror. This supports several places in
her source where she talks about Americas relationship to Asia and the various struggles of
women in both continents. She is the secretary of the Asia Society (since 2013), was the Vice
Chairman of the World Economic Forum, was the eleventh Executive Director for the United
Nations World Food Programme (along with various other food-oriented leadership positions

working with the UN and government), and has served in office (among other achievements) as
the United States Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs. So shes a
woman in a mans world.
Usefulness
I value this source for her opinion, as bias as it is, because it highlights how certain women of
American think and regard growth and opportunity for women. It has no academic standing, but
because I was looking for an opinion that strongly diverts from my own, this source is useful.
Many things I read that she had to say made my stomach turn over. I am excited to find articles
that counter her approach to growth and expansion of women. I especially love that she used the
term bitter feminists because I am really looking forward to addressing that phrase in my
paper. This will be useful to juxtapose my personal bias in my paper. It will be interesting to look
at how women in leadership positions can tell other women that they should continue to keep
their head down because the world has enough doctors and lawyers.