COSWL Cause

Leaving Their Stamp on History.
The number and nature of female images on stamps thus has become an excellent way to measure the status of women. This exhibit will chronicle the first seventy-five years of the history of American women on stamps – as best as can be done at this point. Like much of women’s history, consistent records are not easily accessible, as even Post Office sources are contradictory. We can say, however, that at least two hundred women have been honored on stamps, with most occurring since the revival of feminism in the 1970s. In recent decades, women have been especially likely to be featured in stamp series that honor a category of achievers, such as aviators or musicians or sports figures.

--see it at the website of the National Women's History Museum.

On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship (Paperback)
by Betsy Kruger (Author)
As with its four predecessors, the 1990-2002 compilation of this annotated bibliography continues the commitment of ALA's Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship to identify published materials on the status of women in the profession and to compile, update, and issue a bibliography of these materials on a regular basis. Materials published in the library and information science literature as well as the literature of related fields (i.e., social sciences, management, higher education, and women's studies) have been compiled. Relevant statistical compilations, such as ARL Salary Surveys, which examine gender as a variable are covered. Topics include career development for women; salary and compensation; sex discrimination; equal stratification in the field; and the history of women in the profession. The book has a broad subject arrangement, and entries within are arranged chronologically. Each annotation provides the researcher with sufficient information about the source to make a decision on its usefulness and applicability.

Today, the "L" word is applied to librarians and ladies and deemed to be the problem with the profession, which is now characterized as an "I" -- the "L" being outdated and old-fashioned and resistant to change. Once again, there are too many of US, and not enough of THEM; if we had more of THEM, the profession would be better off, and now we know, workplaces would be healthier. I mean, heaven knows *I* never had a toxic male employee .

This blogging platform does not permit links to any blog on blogspot so I can't link to the blog, Feminism, Libraries and the Information Professions
--but you can copy-- go to the link: http://feminfopro.blogspot.com/

Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday afternoon as the nation's 111th Supreme Court justice and the first Hispanic on the court, a historic moment for the nation's fastest-growing minority group.