African American Female Librarians: A Study of Job Satisfaction
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Summary This article examines the responses of ninety-eight female respondents to a survey on job satisfaction of librarians of African descent employed in seventy-nine Association of Research Libraries (ARL) academic libraries in relation to other gender studies on job satisfaction of librarians. Dependent variables are race, age, years of experience and years at present institution. This article also provides information about the perceptions of the survey respondents regarding isolation in the workplace, racial discrimination in the workplace and diversity programs and how these factors affect their job satisfaction.
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Thornton (2001) examined job satisfaction of female African American librarians and found they experienced isolation and racial discrimination, and that the combination of race and gender made these librarians the least satisfied of any group in the profession.
“Similarly, Thornton (2001) examined the job satisfaction of female African American librarians and found that they experienced isolation and racial discrimination, and that the combination of race and gender made these librarians the least satisfied of any group in the profession.”
From In Pursuit of Antiracist Social Justice: Denaturalizing Whiteness in the Academic Library (2015) · cites this paper as Thornton, 2001
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- Authors
- Thornton, J. K.
- Affiliations
- Texas A&M University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Thornton, Joyce K.
- Venue
- Journal of Library Administration
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2001-06
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 141-164
- ISSN
- 0193-0826 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-3564
- OpenAlex
- W1493706955
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 1.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Library Administration (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Administration
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Career Development and Diversity
- Keywords
- African American librarians, women librarians, job satisfaction, academic libraries, racial discrimination, workplace isolation, diversity programs, Association of Research Libraries
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