id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-24675 Rutledge, Lorelei B. Leveling Up: Women Academic Librarians’ Career Progression in Management Positions 2020-11-03 25 .pdf application/pdf 13649 540 47 Introduction Although 83 percent of librarians are women, only 58 percent of management positions in ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries are held by women.1 Although trends have shown women taking on a greater number of management positions in libraries over time, they are still proportionally underrepresented.2 This continued inequality raises questions about whether women managers still face real and perceived barriers in career advancement and taking on management opportunities in librarianship. ©2020 Lorelei B. Rutledge, Attribution-NonCommercial (https://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) CC BY-NC. mailto:Lorelei.Rutledge@utah.edu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 1144 College & Research Libraries November 2020 cover more about the factors that encourage women to consider management positions or discourage them from doing so, and how the career paths of women managers differ from those of women nonmanagers. cache/crl-24675.pdf txt/crl-24675.txt