Female Librarians: Gender Issues

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the possible problems being met by female librarians due to gender discrimination in libraries. With this purpose in this study, the relevant problems being met by female librarians in libraries are divided as follows; sexual harassment (mobbing) in libraries, wage discrimination (receiving a low wage as a female librarian), gender discrimination in career development, unfair dismissal as a female librarian, career break as a female librarian (because of marriage or having a new baby), and encountering the personal questions in job interviews (such as the questions of the timing of marriage or motherhood). Furthermore, in the study, various recommendations for solving the above problems of gender discrimination met by female librarians in libraries have been also discussed.