Library II By: Momtahina Afrin, Leah Davies, and Marie Perez

 to trace gender equalities and/or inequalities in the librarian profession  to find the gender ratio of authors of library science texts in the Stockton Library vs the Rutgers Camden Library  to contextualize and make our research relevant  to spread the word

 to trace a subject area that is primarily dominated by females  to see if such a female-dominated field of work has females writing the texts  in other words, shouldn’t females who have more experience in this field be the ones writing the text book?

1.Picked “library sciences” as our subject 2.Searched the Stockton University Library Catalog “library sciences” under books 3.Selected the first 25 distinct books that came up; used this as our sample 4.Within our sample of 25, we counted the number of female library sciences textbook authors and the number of male library sciences text book authors 5.Repeated the same process for the Rutgers Camden Library webpage

 Stockton University: Stockton’s library had 249,708 results for Library Science books. Out of the first 25 books, 18 of them were written by men, leaving 7 of them written by women. - 72% of texts were written by men - 28% of texts were written by women

 Rutgers-Camden: The library had 519 results for Library Science books. Out of the first twenty-five books, 22 of them were written by men, leaving 3 of them written by women. - 88% of texts were written by men - 12% of texts were written by women

Stockton University Library Staff: In total there are 31 staff members: - 23 female - 8 male Library Director - male

Rutgers-Camden Library Staff: In total there are 19 staff members: - 13 females - 6 males Library Director - male

 In order to become a librarian, one must obtain his/her Bachelor’s and then his/her Master’s of Library Sciences  In a 2010 survey, men made up about 17.2% of librarians, and 40% of library directors in universities  81% of women consist of Library Science students, 4.2% of those students are African American women, 4.1% of them are Hispanic women, and 3% are Asian women.  Nearly 12% of public libraries do not offer a pension, and 17.4% do not offer retirement savings. Among academic libraries, 23.3% do not offer a pension, and 20% do not offer retirement savings

 In 2010, the median weekly earnings for women were 81% those of men. The minority gap is even worse.  Female librarians weekly median wage is $841; men’s $921.  Women’s average salaries: $69,277 Men’s average salaries (about 3.7% more): $71,953

 “sexy librarian”  not a “real profession”  association with femininity

 There are more experienced women in the field of library sciences, yet more males write texts for the field  Even when library staffs are dominated by women, men are the directors  Even with the same degrees, men get paid more for the same work than women  Basically, the feminism mission has not been accomplished and librarians represent that

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