Equity

Join #5WomenArtists

By Stacy Meteer

Ask someone to name five artists and responses will likely include names such as Warhol, Picasso, van Gogh, Monet, da Vinci—all male artists. Ask someone to name five women artists, and the question poses more of a challenge. The truth is …
A Role for Museums in the Urban Renaissance: Reviving Skills of Craftsmanship

By Elizabeth Merritt

One topic I’m researching now is how museums deploy their assets—tangible and intangible—to promote equity in their communities. In today’s guest post Erin Sheets and Russell Davidson tell us how the Albright-Knox Art Gallery used its …
7 Factors That Drive Museum Wages Down

By Michael Holland

Several years ago, a good friend of mine and I were talking about our careers, and he asked how mine was going. I said that I was pretty much doing my dream job, I only wished that I could get paid more. His response was, “I don’t …
Museopunks Episode 23: The Gendered Museum

By Suse Anderson

Did you know that several studies in recent years have shown that when women enter a specific field in large numbers, the pay for that field declines overall, even for the same jobs that men were doing? This is one of many implications of …
Unpacking “Gravitas” A museum director reflects on gender inequities in the museum field.

By Kaywin Feldman

Kaywin Feldman’s remarks during the general session of the 2016 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo were considered by many to be the highlight of the conference…
Five Strategies for Promoting Workforce Equity: Future-proofing the Museum Workforce

By Nicole Ivy

This article originally appeared in the January/February issue of Museum magazine. 1: Re-think Cultural Fit Employers, market researchers, and cultural influencers alike have recently revisited the question of “cultural fit” in the …
Access and Equity in Museum Internships: A Case Study

By Elizabeth Merritt

In the US in 2015, 17.5 percent of persons with a disability were employed–compared to a 65 percent employment rate for people without a disability: a troubling statistic that should influence our discussions of museum labor and …
The CFM Future of Education Tour starts in 2017 in the Southeast!

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week we are pleased to share our own bit of good news: CFM Fellows Sage Morgan-Hubbard and Nicole Ivy announce they are taking their work on the road with The Future of Education Tour. In January 2017, they will set out on the first …
Crafting courageous truths: The creation and philosophy of MASS Action: Museum As Site for Social Action

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today, Porchia Moore, Aletheia Wittman, Elisabeth Callihan, nikhil trivedi, Janeen Bryant, and Sage Morgan-Hubbard share thoughts on the recent MASS Action convening. Here they outline the vision for the three-year project and describe the …
The Future is Diverse

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post is jointly authored by members of the 2016 cohort of the History Museum Fellows Program—a partnership between the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) that engages students in studying the …