Facing Sexual Harassment and Abuse in the Feminizing Museum

Autor/inn/en	trivedi, nikhil; Wittman, Aletheia
Titel	Facing Sexual Harassment and Abuse in the Feminizing Museum
Quelle	In: Journal of Museum Education, 43 (2018) 3, S.209-218 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1059-8650
DOI	10.1080/10598650.2018.1488126
Schlagwörter	Sexual Harassment; Sexual Abuse; Sex Fairness; Museums; Feminism; Females; Employed Women; Labor Force; Occupational Surveys; Empowerment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexuelle Belästigung; Sexueller Missbrauch; Sexualaufklärung; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; Feminismus; Weibliches Geschlecht; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Berufsanalyse
Abstract	Despite the growing number of women in museums, the undervaluing of educational work traditionally associated with women, and labor largely done by women today, persists. This begs the question: in what "other" ways are women and femmes working in museums undermined despite their growing presence as workers and the emerging centrality of the educational role of museums? In society more broadly, we see how undervaluing women and their labor leads to a spectrum of treatment that can be considered violent. In this spectrum, we include pay and benefit disparities, disempowerment, and marginalization through sexist, homophobic, and transphobic comments and objectification, harassment, threats, verbal, physical, emotional, and financial abuse, and at the far end of the spectrum sexual assault and murder. In this article, we discuss data collected through a survey conducted about incidences of sexual abuse and harassment experienced by museum workers. We explore the results of the survey in relation to the gender-based division of labor and skills among the museum workforce. We look to the responses to this survey as a gauge of how much power women and gender non-conforming people have in their daily work lives in museums and propose actions that could increase empowerment and support. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01