I think the perception of museum work, for some, does sort of fall under the category of "arts", hence the large percentage of women, plus much of the work done in museums is registration or cataloguing which is often viewed by some as "clerical" or "woman's work" by some. When I was taking my museum's studies our class was about 75% female upon graduation. George Garner commented "In more traditionally masculine subjects (e.g. war museums) I usually see more male staff then female. This is, of course, a gross generalization, and I hate to imply that men are solely into war and women into art." - and he is right! (gross generalization, based on observation and experience on my part)Most war or military museums are predominantly staffed by men. When I first started work at the Canadian War Museum, the women were in the minority, occupying positions in cataloguing/registration, database admin, secretarial or conservation (all lesser positions), with men in the curatorial, administrative, exhibition, and directorial positions. However, we did have a strange reversal and for a while the women were in the majority - still in cataloguing/registration, database admin, secretarial and conservation, but also in curatorial and "middle management" roles. Today the numbers (men vs women) are pretty even. Half of the Collections Managers/Curators are women, the three directors are men (no surprise there!), strangely our education and exhibitions sections are all men? but with a fairly equal scattering everywhere else. Carol Reid Collection Manager, Archives Canadian War Museum ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).