Attitudes toward women as managers in library and information science

Murgai, Sarla R.

doi:10.1007/bf00288206

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“…The apparent similarity between male and female leaders Deyrup (2004) reported, in turn, should raise questions about how gender-neutral the "mainstream leadership" model she describes really is. Finally, as Murgai (1991; and Lombard (2018) show, attitudes toward and perceptions of leadership equity are not the same for men and women in librarianship.…”

Section: Gender Differences Leadership Styles and Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Similarly, no definite differences were reported in studies that looked at library school students' and professional library staff's perceptions of gender in leadership. Murgai (1991) surveyed current students in master's degree programs (MSLS/MLS) to examine their beliefs and attitudes about women managers. She found that a great majority of students, both male and female alike, did not differentiate between the professional competence of men and women leaders.…”

Section: Gender Differences Leadership Styles and Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From Women-Staffed to Women-Led: Gender and Leadership in Academic Libraries, 1974-2018

Bladek

2019

Journal of Library Administration

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This article reviews post-1974 scholarly literature on women's leadership in academic libraries, with the emphasis on the United States. The purpose of this synthesis is to highlight research areas and themes that have significantly expanded the profession's knowledge about gender and its impact at the top administrative level. The article starts with a brief overview of theories of gender and leadership before tracing scholarship on the gendered career patterns singled out in Schiller's work (1974). The article then focuses on additional issues related to gender and library administration, including leadership styles, perceptions of differences between male and female leaders, and the lack of diversity among academic library women directors.

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Section: Gender Differences Leadership Styles and Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Gender Differences Leadership Styles and Attitudesmentioning

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From Women-Staffed to Women-Led: Gender and Leadership in Academic Libraries, 1974-2018

Bladek

2019

Journal of Library Administration

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“…By 1999, women had overtaken men and held a majority of top academic library leadership positions in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions, the ARL board of directors, and the ALA's executive board and officer positions. 23 This may be due, in part, to the impact in the subsequent decades of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in all employment practices. To help correct past discriminations, Executive Order 11246 created Affirmative Action in 1965, which aims to reduce discrimination toward targeted groups and increase their numbers in certain occupations and, starting in 1972, institutions of higher education.…”

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The Gender Wage Gap in Research Libraries

Howard

Habashi²,

Reed

2020

C&RL

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The gender wage gap impacts millions of women throughout the US and world, with women in the US making on average 82 percent of men's salaries (US Census Bureau, 2018). In research libraries, a field dominated by women, this has historically been true as well, with men rising to top positions at a higher rate and making more money than women in the same positions. Over the decades following the implementation of Affirmative Action, the number of women in administrative positions in research libraries has increased dramatically. This article explores the issue of women's salaries in research libraries in five job tiers. The five job tiers group library positions based on power dynamic, with the first tier including positions that run academic libraries, through the fifth tier, which includes front-line positions. An analysis of data from the Association of Research Libraries from 1976 through 2016 demonstrates that, though women have made progress in obtaining higher-level positions, salary disparities continue to exist between men and women at all levels.

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“…Balser and Stern (1999) studied library supervisors of unknown professional status and paraprofessional employees, while the other three focused on a mix of librarians, paraprofessional and support staff and, in at least one case, (Hammond, 2006) student workers. The remaining article did not actually focus on current library employees at all; Murgai (1991) studied library school students in an effort to capture the beliefs of future librarians.…”

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The use of librarians as occupational study populations in social science research

Still

Wilkinson

2014

Library Review

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the use of librarians as a study population in social science research outside of the field of library and information science. Additionally, it aims to make general claims about how frequently librarians have been studied compared to other occupations, as well as to identify and describe existing research that has used librarians as a study population. Design/methodology/approach – The described study had two parts. Two social science databases were searched using the subject headings “librarians” and eight additional occupations, and the results for all nine occupations were analyzed. The peer-reviewed results for “librarians” were then coded by content. The articles that used librarians as a study population were identified, reviewed and described. Findings – Although librarians, as an occupational group, possess many characteristics that should make them an ideal choice for social science research, they seem to be studied less frequently than other occupations. Research limitations/implications – Other occupational groups, such as mathematicians, were also studied infrequently. Further research might consider, more broadly, why some occupations are studied more frequently than others. Future studies might also compare librarianship to other female-dominated professions, such as nursing and education. Additionally, the subject heading “librarians” was applied to articles that studied non-professional library employees, making it difficult to isolate only articles with a focus on degreed librarians. Originality/value – Few other studies have examined social science research in which librarians are used as the study population. By focusing on how librarians are studied and written about in other fields, this paper will add to the body of literature on the professional image of librarians.

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Attitudes toward women as managers in library and information science

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

From Women-Staffed to Women-Led: Gender and Leadership in Academic Libraries, 1974-2018

From Women-Staffed to Women-Led: Gender and Leadership in Academic Libraries, 1974-2018

The Gender Wage Gap in Research Libraries

The use of librarians as occupational study populations in social science research

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