Abstract

ABSTRACT In recent years, art museum leaders have all-too-readily accepted the idea that a surfeit of women is driving down both salaries and prestige, leading some to conclude that hiring more men is the best way to restore the credibility of museum work. But that solution not only threatens to widen the gap between men's and women's pay by framing male employees as more valuable, it also obscures systemic problems. When we study a wider range of research and take a broader view of the complex links between gender, class, and compensation in our field, new and better solutions appear. I offer a path forward that begins by shifting attention away from the insubstantial specter of a ‘pink-collar’ art museum field and toward some of the true, interconnected causes of gender and class inequity in U.S. art museums. While acknowledging the intersectional nature of inequality in museums and other cultural spaces, I will be focusing in this essay on women in museums.

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