The International Labor Organization (ILO) collects employment data by industry. You can access it two ways:

1. UN Data: choose "employment" in the database coverage block
2. Labour Statistics Yearbook Database (LABORSTA): you'll find employment by sex and industry branch for each country, and can look at particular countries, industry sectors, etc.

Useful databases include America History and Life, Women's Resource International, and Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000. In Searchworks, search for subject terms such as World War, women, and propaganda. When you find relevant books, look at the Library of Congress (LC) subject headings, and click on them for related sources. Additionally, Stanford's Hoover Library has a collection of war posters. Some websites have digitized posters as well (e.g., Recruiting Posters for Women from World War II and Women Veterans Historical Collection).

You might not find many sources on a particular region but you should be able to find literature on women's social and economic conditions and gender in India. If you search in Searchworks using subject terms "widows" and "India," you will find a few titles that will lead you to these subjects:

• Women India Social conditions
• Widow suicide India
• Marriage law India
• Family violence Law and legislation India

You should also check Worldcat to see if other libraries have books relevant to your topic. If you find titles Stanford does not own, request them via interlibrary loan.

Additionally, here is a list of article databases to look at:

• Sociological Abstracts
• Women's resources international
• Contemporary women's issues
• Ethnic Newswatch
• Policy File
• Sociological abstracts
• Statistics of India

Finally, you might want to check activist organizations that work on related issues, such as Widows' Rights International and Amnesty International.

To start, use Searchworks and search for "subprime lending." You will get records for several government documents, including May 2007 Congressional Hearings on the issue. If you click on the title, you will see a link for the Electronic version of the Hearing transcripts. There are also several reports from 2000 about the unequal burden in subprime lending. Also in Searchworks, try searching for "discrimination and mortgage loans" under "subject terms," which yields other relevant books and documents.

You may also want to try the database ABI/Inform, searching for “mortgages and racial discrimination.” Use the tabs at the top of the Results list to see results from scholarly journals, magazines, trade publications, or newspapers. Also, the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development has useful information about this topic.