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The Missing Women Library Directors: Deprivation versus Mentoring

Author(s) -

Janice J. Kirkland

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

college and research libraries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.886

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 2150-6701

pISSN - 0010-0870

DOI - 10.5860/crl.58.4.375

Subject(s) - glass ceiling , academic library , psychology , medical education , demographic economics , political science , library science , medicine , computer science , economics , law

Why is the percentage of women academic library directors much lower than the percentage of women in the profession as a whole? This article examines survey responses to conclude that factors blocking the advancement of women library directors include deprivation behavior or antimentoring, which supports a glass ceiling. A second survey finds that mentoring is a central factor in career advancement of many women library directors.

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