Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity

GEMM: Gender Equity in Museums Movement

| Dana

 “The Gender Equity in Museums Movement (GEMM) is a coalition of individuals (and organizations) committed to raising awareness about gender inequity in the museum workplace and offering resources for change. GEMM focuses on challenges and opportunities in the museum workplace for ALL women, regardless of race, ethnicity or orientation and gender identity or any other attribute.”

https://www.genderequitymuseums.com/

 

“The GEMM Committee has written a platform paper addressing the need for action around gender equity in museums. You can download a PDF of the paper here, or read on below:

​Forty-three years ago a group of women gathered at the American Association of Museums annual meeting, now the Alliance, (AAM). Calling themselves the Women’s Caucus, they asked for numerous reforms to end gender-based discriminatory hiring and promotion practices in the museum profession. At the time, women held fewer than 16-percent of museum directorships, a number that declined before it increased. The Caucus also called for a legal guide to help women challenge discrimination, for support for open salary information, and guidelines for fair employment practices. That was then.

Today, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women make up 46.7-percent of the museum field, working in every job title and every museum discipline.”

Women in the Museum: Lessons from the Workplace

| Dana

 

ISBN-13: 978-1629582351
ISBN-10: 1629582352

 

https://www.amazon.com/Women-Museum-Workplace-Joan-Baldwin/dp/1629582352/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=

“The number of women working in museum settings has grown exponentially since the start of the twentieth century. Women in the Museum explores the professional lives of the sector’s female workforce today and examines the challenges they face working in what was, until recently, 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 incorporate 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 and academics in the fields of museum studies and gender studies, as well as museum professionals and gender equality advocates.”