num_pages: 214
description: Women in the Museum explores the professional lives of the sector's female workforce, examining the challenges they face working in what was once a male dominated field. Drawing on testimony gathered from surveys, focus groups and interviews with female museum professionals, the book examines the nature of gender bias in the profession as well as women's varied responses to it. In doing so, it clarifies how women's work in museums differs from men's and reveals the entrenched nature of gender bias in the museum workplace. Offering a clear argument as to why museums must create, foster and protect an equitable playing field, the authors include a gender equity agenda for individuals, institutions, graduate programs, and professional associations.Written by experienced museum professionals, Women in the Museum is the first book to examine the topic in depth. It is useful reading for students of gender and museum studies alike, as well as museum professionals, gender equality advocates and the general reader interested in equality in the workplace.
language: English
title: Women in the Museum: Lessons from the Workplace
publisher: Routledge