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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED066163 AUTHOR: Lipow, Anne; And Others
TITLE: A Report on the Status of Women Employed in the
Library of the University of California, Berkeley, with
Recommendations for Affirmative Action.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1971
NOTE: 61 p.;(36 References)
AVAILABILITY: University Council - American Federation of
Teachers, 2510 Channing Way, Berkeley, Calif. 94704 ($2.00)
ABSTRACT: This report deals with discrimination against
women employed as librarians and library assistants at the
University of California, Berkeley Library. The report
demonstrates that (1) library professional, technical and
clerical personnel--both women and men--work in "women's
occupations," and, therefore, are underpaid when compared to
"men's occupations" which require similar backgrounds of edu
(2) within their
respective categories of Librarian and Library Assistant,
women are concentrated at the lowest levels; and (3) the
opportunities for women to advance in their library careers
diminishing. Some of the broader factors
which contribute to the inferior position of women in the
labor force are analyzed, such as stereotyped attitudes
about the "nature" of women, discriminatory hiring
practices, limited educational opportunities and lack of
adequate child-care facilities. Recommendations to correct
these inequities include: immediate increase in salary for
all women and men employed in the Library to parity with
salaries of comparable male-typed occupations; corrective
reclassification of women whose advancement has been
retarded because of their sex; proposals for changes in
hiring and recruitment policies, improvement of in-service
training and career development, expansion of educational
opportunities, provision of child-care facilities, and
implementation of an affirmative action program. (Author/NH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Inservice-Education; Library-Technicians;
Salaries-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Libraries; *Employment
Opportunities; *Females-; *Librarians-; *Sex-Discrimination
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