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- Sep 29, 2018
- 2 min
Salary Matters: Transparency is Ethical Practice for Employers and Job-Seekers Alike
The Gender Equity in Museums Movement (GEMM) supports the calls from our colleagues in the museum and broader nonprofit sectors to make salary ranges transparent in job listings in an effort to address the inequitable power imbalance between museum employers and employees and interns. There is a growing recognition that salary transparency is a sensible and ethical practice—beneficial to employers and job-seekers alike. Research reveals that job listings with salary ranges re
- Sep 18, 2018
- 1 min
Museums Alaska 2018: Keynote by GEMM Co-Founder Marieke Van Damme
On September 14 GEMM Co-Founder Marieke Van Damme delivered the keynote address “The Joy in Our Work," for the Museums Alaska conference. Her address touched on the many issues facing museum workers, including perpetually under-resourced staff, lack of professional human resources departments, low pay with poor benefits, gender discrimination, and more. Marieke's talk focused on "bright spots" for museum workers and suggestions for improving one's own workplace culture. An e