Census of Female Public Library Directors Is on the Decline

IF 1.4 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Public Library Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI:10.1080/01616846.2022.2125241

A. Molaro, H. Hammond

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This exploratory study examines the gender parity of public library directors. While there has been considerable research on the role of women library leaders in academic libraries through the 1990s, little is known about the gender parity of public library directors. The membership of the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) serves as the sample size for this study. Gender parity of public library directors reached its zenith in 1999 with 65% of public library directors being women. A little over twenty years later, that number declined to 57.82%, a reduction of about seven percent. This study demonstrates the gender parity of public library directors has not been met.

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公共图书馆女馆长普查呈下降趋势

摘要：这项探索性研究考察了公共图书馆馆长的性别平等。尽管在20世纪90年代，人们对女性图书馆领导在学术图书馆中的作用进行了大量研究，但对公共图书馆馆长的性别平等知之甚少。城市图书馆理事会（ULC）的成员资格是本研究的样本量。公共图书馆馆长的性别平等在1999年达到顶峰，65%的公共图书馆馆长是女性。20多年后，这一数字下降到57.82%，下降了约7%。这项研究表明，公共图书馆馆长的性别平等尚未得到满足。

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Public Library Quarterly INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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3.50

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21.10%

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