ABSTRACT
Museums as institutions, like women as individuals, have suffered by being undervalued despite their contributions to society. International museums have taken on the question of gender equity. Conference proceedings stated that "the contribution of women must be visible in all public spaces, delegates agreed, not just in the narratives of exhibitions, but the artworks on display, currently overwhelmingly by male artists." In art museums, particularly in the last decade, there is an ongoing dialogue about how many women artists a collection contains or how often women artists receive solo exhibitions. Every leadership study in business and in science tells us that when the genders work together equitably, good things happen. It is important to know that women museum workers have tried to draw attention to gender disparity, both inside and outside the workplace while every decade new voices emerge, yet change is glacial.
