GENDER AND LIBRARIANSHIP I TELL YA: a thread.
According to @ARLnews's 2016-2017 annual salary survey, while there's still a gender pay gap, high-level administration positions at University Libraries have hit/surpassed proportional representation... I think?
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According to @ARLnews's 2016-2017 annual salary survey, while there's still a gender pay gap, high-level administration positions at University Libraries have hit/surpassed proportional representation... I think?
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1st, source: publications.arl.org/ARL-Annual-Sal…
Specifically, table 18 and table 3b. I'm counting "high-level" as Director, Assoc/Assist. Director, and Branch Head bc that's how ARL grouped them.
1st, total population breakout (excl. law+medical libs): 61.9% women, 38.1% men. 2/
Specifically, table 18 and table 3b. I'm counting "high-level" as Director, Assoc/Assist. Director, and Branch Head bc that's how ARL grouped them.
1st, total population breakout (excl. law+medical libs): 61.9% women, 38.1% men. 2/
2nd, high-level admin composition are 63.95% women, 36.05% men, meaning men are slightly underrepresented (~2%). BUT, the wage gap still swings in favor of men: the women at the top make $0.90 to $0.98 per man$. The gap is smallest at the top and biggest at the bottom.
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Caveat: Director/Associate Director still overrepresented (41.2% and 41.8% resp.), balanced out by Assist. Director & Branch Head (33.3% and 29.6%).
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Compared to '05-'06, when men made up 36.7% of total population, and 38.2% of top management. (source: publications.arl.org/ARL-Annual-Sal… Figure 2 and table 18).
HOWEVER, top tier wage wage gap was smaller/nonexistent then, ranging from $1.01 to $0.92 per man$.
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HOWEVER, top tier wage wage gap was smaller/nonexistent then, ranging from $1.01 to $0.92 per man$.
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Sadly, I couldn't find up-to-date numbers for public libraries because @ALALibrary website's data is almost 20 years old. But I think this is all very interesting, and I'd like to see new numbers (if anyone has access and I'm just not seeing them).
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ALL TO SAY: Gender and librarianship is complex, and things are getting better in some ways but worse in others, so we have to keep talking about it & gathering data. We also need to push hard to un-whitewash librarianship IN MEANINGFUL WAYS, because that's still a problem.
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