Keywords
Gender Studies
Job and Pay Discrimination
Literature Review
How to Cite
Abstract
This study focuses on the analysis of bibliographic productivity on the history and evolution of American librarianship from a gender perspective. From its beginnings, this discipline became a feminised profession in which women librarians played a fundamental role in its definition and consolidation. But as the sector became more professionalised, they lost representation and economic power, occupying positions of lesser responsibility and lower salaries. As a methodology, bibliographic research has been carried out in two databases (LISA, JSTOR) and an analysis and selection of the bibliographic production focusing on the relevance and number of publications. The results show an extensive bibliographic corpus starting in the 1970s, with its epicentre in the 1980s-90s. Many studies relate the discrediting of the profession to its feminisation. Despite the fact that female participation was key in the establishment and formation of the discipline, women librarians suffered a progressive loss of status during the professionalisation of the sector. The limitations generated by gender status frustrated many careers and librarianship is an example of the contradictions of this feminisation.
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