Tag: wages

  • Get about It: Change and Resistance

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    By Linda Norris
    I’d never visited New Orleans before, and my brief but fascinating experience served as a metaphor for this year’s AAM Annual Meeting experience. New Orleans is a city of layers, with old finishes poking through, new ideas still pushing …

  • Museums as a Pink Collar Profession

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    By Joan Baldwin
    This week, my colleagues at GEMM (the Gender Equity in Museums Movement) published their second white paper, Museums as a Pink Collar Profession. GEMM’s paper poses some complex questions about our field. Among other things, it asks …

  • 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 …

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