Another reason for the larger amount of women in the museum field may be
economic - until fairly recently (relatively speaking) it was uncommon for a
woman to be the main provider in a family. Museum's traditionally lower
salaries, at the lower levels, would have been enough to support a single
person or make a nice contribution to a family's income, but likely not
enough to be the sole income for an entire family.

Just a thought, and yet another broad generalization.

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Mary Margaret Carr
Registrar
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
University of Florida
P.O. Box 112700
Gainesville, FL 32611-2700
352-392-9826
f: 352-392-3892
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