To close the gender pay gap in the field, we must first gain a better understanding of how systems of inequality shape the compensation and career experiences of art professionals.
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Report Finds Huge Gender Gap in Polish Art Schools
A new report by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation investigates a stark disparity in Poland’s art academies: women constitute 77% of students but only 22% of professors.
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Saatchi Gallery Congratulates Itself on First All-Women Art Show
Charles Saatchi, head of the eponymous Saatchi Gallery in London, doesn’t exactly have the best feminist track record.
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Collector Funds Scheme to Get More Work by Women Artists into UK Museums
Art collector Valeria Napoleone is spearheading an initiative to put artwork by women in museums in the UK and US.
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The Guerrilla Girls Are Still Relevant After All These Years
CLAREMONT, Calif. — When I first saw the work of the Guerrilla Girls in high school, I had a similar reaction as when I first read Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”: ashamed that something so obvious had to be laid out for me.
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New Tally Shows Sexism Alive and Well at Top NYC Art Galleries
Curator Maura Reilly posted an image of compiled gallery gender statistics on Facebook today, a “report card” by anonymous feminist art collective Pussy Galore showing the percentages of women represented by some of the top art galleries in New York City.
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$44M O’Keeffe Painting More Than Triples Auction Record for Woman Artist
Hot on the heels of a $1.5 billion art auction week, a painting by Georgia O’Keeffe broke the record for the most expensive work by a female artist sold at auction this morning.
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Assessing the Gender Gap in Architecture
Here’s your daily dose of gender gap reality: although more women seem to be going into architecture, parity between the sexes remains far off in the field.