如同其它妇女密集型的行业,美国图书馆中虽然64％的工作人员为女性,但男性几乎垄断了领导管理的职位。直到70年代,这种性别差异才有所突破,妇女在获取管理职务方面取得了很大进展。70年代中期,美国学术研究性图书馆中任馆长的男性比例为89％,任副馆长或馆长助理的男性比例为70％。到1984年,上述两个比例分别降至80％和49％,也就是说,在此几年中,妇女担任领导管理职务的比例几 As in other women-intensive industries, although 64% of the staff in the U.S. Library are women, men have almost monopolized leadership positions. Until the 1970s, this gender gap made a breakthrough and women made great strides in obtaining management positions. In the mid-1970s, males served as curators in academic research libraries in the United States at 89%, with males serving as associate curators or assistant curators at 70%. By 1984, the above two ratios had dropped to 80% and 49% respectively, that is to say, in the past few years, the proportion of women in leadership positions