Choosing Your Keywords

When researching a topic related to Women's History, try combining "women" and the general topic you are researching. For example:

women AND education

women AND business

If the concept you're researching has more than one word, enclose the phrase in quotation marks. This will ensure that the database searches for that exact phrase instead of each word separately. For example:

women AND "equal pay"

women AND "gender roles"

women AND "sexual harassment"

You can also use this strategy to narrow your search down to a specific subset of women, such as:

"black women" AND voting

Getting too many results?

Try adding more keywords to narrow your search. For example:

women AND workplace AND rights AND "united states"

Not getting enough results?

You can also broaden your search by grouping similar words together using OR. This will help you find resources that talk about the same topic using different language. For example:

women AND (college OR university OR "higher education")