The Gender Wage Gap in Research Libraries

Howard, Heather; Habashi, Meara H.; Reed, Jason

doi:10.5860/crl.81.4.662

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“…But we should also think about the potential impact of these uses of AI on equality, diversity and inclusion within a profession which has a female majority but still has persistent gender pay gap (Hall et al, 2016; Howard et al, 2020). AI should not be seen simplistically as a neutral technology.…”

Section: Discussion: How Will Ai Impact Employment and Equality Diver...mentioning

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Defining artificial intelligence for librarians

Cox

Mazumdar

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The aim of the paper is to define Artificial Intelligence (AI) for librarians by examining general definitions of AI, analysing the umbrella of technologies that make up AI, defining types of use case by area of library operation, and then reflecting on the implications for the profession, including from an equality, diversity and inclusion perspective. The paper is a conceptual piece based on an exploratory literature review, targeting librarians interested in AI from a strategic rather than a technical perspective. Five distinct types of use cases of AI are identified for libraries, each with its own underlying drivers and barriers, and skills demands. They are applications in library back-end processes, in library services, through the creation of communities of data scientists, in data and AI literacy and in user management. Each of the different applications has its own drivers and barriers. It is hard to anticipate the impact on professional work but as information environment becomes more complex it is likely that librarians will continue to have a very important role, especially given AI’s dependence on data. However, there could be some negative impacts on equality, diversity and inclusion if AI skills are not spread widely.

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Section: Discussion: How Will Ai Impact Employment and Equality Diver...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Defining artificial intelligence for librarians

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Mazumdar

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…One way to acknowledge and appreciate this work is through its compensation. Despite the fact that, in at least one study, researchers found "higher incidences of burnout among female respondents, particularly those between ages 35 and 44," (Dixon, 2022), there is also data to support that "males at every level [of the academic library] make significantly more, both statistically and in terms of lost wages during the course of a career, than their female colleagues" (Howard et al, 2020). This mismatch of work and compensation would suggest that social-emotional labor, and care work in general, is not formally compensated as work.…”

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Who Cares? The Invisible Work of Our Most Visible Librarians

Hollis

2023

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As many in the field of teaching know, student support can sometimes extend beyond the purely academic into the personal and emotional. This phenomenon may be a natural part of pedagogies focused on holistic student support, but it can also have effects on the professionals that perform this kind of care work. This article draws on the personal experiences of one early-career librarian to examine the relationship between social-emotional labor and the largely feminized field of librarianship. It also draws on language from recent instruction librarian job postings to make recommendations about where research in this area may be needed.

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“…2 According to Howard, Habashi, and Reed (2020), librarianship today in the United States has become "a female-dominated profession, with about one man for every five women" (664).…”

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Memoriam: Lynn C. Westney (1947-2021)

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On the day before Christmas 1947, Joseph and Alma Tvrdik welcomed a new baby girl into their home in Chicago, Illinois. They named their little girl, Lynn Carol Tvrdik ("Chicago Tribune" 2021). 1 An intelligent and inquisitive child, Lynn discovered the joys of reading and writing from very early on. She would remain true to those passions her entire life. After completing high school, Lynn applied to the undergraduate program of Loyola University. She was accepted and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Still hungry for more, she went on to obtain a Masters of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIC). It was there that Lynn discovered what would become her institutional home.For 25 years, Lynn remained at UIC. Over the years, she became an Associate Professor and the Coordinator of Reference Collection Development for UIC's library system. Although today, Library Science in the United States is often seen as a typically female domain 2 , at the time Lynn entered the profession, this was far from the case. According to statistics compiled by the Association of Research Libraries, between 1976 and 1977, 89% of all directorships were held by men (Irvine 1985, 236). Within a few decades, this glaring gender discrepancy in library science and other historically male occupations ended, thanks to a combination of two factors. The first was the passage of revolutionary legislation that forbade employment discrimination on the basis of gender and promoted the active recruitment and advancement of qualified women 3 . The second was a new generation of courageous female scholars who were ready, willing, and more than able to take on positions of leadership (Irvine 1985;Swisher, Ruhig DuMont, and Boyer 1985); Lynn was just such a woman.Lynn's entry into the professional world of library science came at a time when the entire discipline was undergoing yet another revolutionary change. With the introduction of affordable computer technology and the rise of the internet, the 1980's marked the start of mass digitization of library holdings. Gone were the days of card catalogs and microfiche. Data that had once taken up thousands of pages from stacks of printed books could now be stored on the space of an ordinary floppy disc, measuring only 5½ inches across. And this was only the beginning.During a Joseph Leiter Lecture given in April of 1986, Dr. R. Davis likened the impact of computer science on library science to the archetypal "Big Bang," resulting in a cosmic shift in the way libraries were designed, utilized, and managed (3). In the past, the typical library was a majestic edifice of brick and mortar that served as a physical repository for a society's most revered printed artifacts (Lynch and Brownrigg 1986). In the future, researchers predicted libraries would become digital informational hubs "located everywhere and nowhere at the same time" (Davis 1987, 3).

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The Gender Wage Gap in Research Libraries

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Defining artificial intelligence for librarians

Defining artificial intelligence for librarians

Who Cares? The Invisible Work of Our Most Visible Librarians

Memoriam: Lynn C. Westney (1947-2021)

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