Dictionary of Women Worldwide

Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Throughout the Ages
EditorsAnne Commire
Deborah Klezmer
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWomen's biography
PublisherYorkin Publications
Publication date
2006
Pages2572
ISBN978-0-7876-7585-1

Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Throughout the Ages is a biographical dictionary of women. Published in 2006 by Yorkin Publications (an imprint of Gale), the three-volume Dictionary was intended to redress the paucity of information on women available in other biographical dictionaries. Editors Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer found that typically five percent or less of the text of such works was devoted to women.[1]

The dictionary was the winner of the 2007 Best Reference Book Award from the American Library Association.[2]

  1. ^ "Dictionary of women worldwide; 25,000 women through the ages; 3v". Reference & Research Book News. 22 (1). 2007 – via Gale Academic Onefile.
  2. ^ "Awards and Grants: Dictionary of women worldwide: 25,000 women through the ages". American Library Association. September 23, 2010. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2021.