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Thursday, July 27 • 10:45am - 11:45am
204 - Representation Without Leadership: Assessing Stress and Gender in the Archival Workplace

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The archival profession has become female-dominated but still faces traditional gendered leadership limitations. Documentation of this duality relies on anecdotal evidence rather than systematic, confirmatory research. To address this deficiency, the panelists developed a survey to measure workplace stress. Standard psychological instruments were used to analyze how workplace stress affects archivists' professional lives, if workplace stress disproportionately affects female archivists, and whether there are gender differences in role overload.

Chinery: Developing Methodology for a Research Study
 Casey: Archivists at Work: Survey Analysis and Results
 Orchard: Getting IRB Approval: It's a Process
 Stankrauff: Uncovering Data in the Archival Profession About Education, Mentoring, and Gender
 Van Veen McRoberts: Addressing the Paradigm of the Female Archivist and the Professional Historiographic Landscape
Commentator: Kristen Chinery
Chair
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Kristen Chinery

Reference Archivist, Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
Kristen Chinery is the Reference Archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library. She currently serves as co-chair of the Regional Archival Associations Consortium (RAAC). Her research activity includes women's labor history and industrial organizational psychology as it relates to ar... Read More →

Speakers
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Rita Casey

Associate Professor, Wayne State University
Rita Casey is a professor in the Psychology Department at Wayne State University, and a clinical and developmental psychologist who studies emotion in the context of human development. Her recent work includes the exploration of stress and depression among teachers and other public... Read More →
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Leslie Van Veen McRoberts

Local History Archivist, Salisbury University
Leslie Van Veen McRoberts is the Local History Archivist at the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture. She currently serves on the MARAC Education Committee and has previously served as co-chair and steering committee member of SAA's Women Archivists Sec... Read More →
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Alexandra A.A. Orchard

Technical and Metadata Archivist, Wayne State University
Alexandra Orchard, CA, DAS, is the Technical + Metadata Archivist at the Reuther Library and Chair of Archival Issues' Editorial Board. Orchard's research interests include labor, women, pop culture, archival theory, description, and technologies.

Thursday July 27, 2017 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
Oregon BR 203 Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE MLK, Jr. Blvd, Portland, OR 97232
  Education Session

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