Women in College Art Departments and Museums

Abstract

The College Art Association, in common with almost all of the organizations sponsored by particular academic disciplines and professions in the United States, recently demonstrated its concern with the current status of women in the professions that it represents by forming a Committee on the Status of Women.1 Women members of the C.A.A. have independently expressed their belief that discrimination against women is a serious problem in these professions by forming a Women's Caucus.2 Members of the Caucus have begun to collect and disseminate information about the distribution of women in college and university art departments and art museums. They are also trying to define the particular kinds of problems faced by women artists, art historians and museum professionals; to publicize the legal avenues of redress now available to women who believe that they have been discriminated against; and to sponsor and encourage such political action as will lead to the elimination of discrimination against women.