In the US, gender bias in museum pay
March 12 2014
Jerome Weeks at artandseek highlights an awkward new survey from the the US National Center for Arts Research on gender disparities in museum salaries:
Fewer than 43 percent of art museum directors are women. And the female directors, on average, are paid less than their male counterparts. These are the results of a joint study done by SMU’s NCAR and the Association of Art Museum Directors. It found that female directors at museums with budgets of more than $15 million earn 71 cents for every $1 male directors earn. At the same time, women who run art museums with smaller budgets do earn more than their male counterparts – annually, they earn 2 cents more.
Averaging both groups, though, still leaves a gender gap for female directors of 79 cents for every dollar male directors earn.
I don't know if we have the same problem here in the UK. But I do know, as I've said before, that we don't have enough women museum directors to start with.
