Gender roles represented in museums and their social influences

博物馆是社会教育和继续教育的场所，是人们发现世界新意义的场所。然而，通常情况下，展品是无意识地通过传统的性别角色制作的，结果是性别偏见被复制和加强。在这个项目中，我们旨在对几个展览和博物馆的目录进行分析，以考虑所代表的性别角色和艺术类别之间的等级关系。同时，我们尝试为大学生制作工作表。这使我们能够了解游客的感知，并探索改变博物馆性别偏见的可能做法。因此，我们澄清了这八点。在博物馆的工人和工作人员中可以看到严格的性别角色。性别平等在博物馆的政策中没有得到充分的落实。促进女性视角的考古研究是一个紧迫的问题。从明治时代开始，（地方和国家）政府就把全部精力放在促进工业和艺术上，而不接受公民和妇女的意见。在地方博物馆活动中，对“chiiki”（地区或地方社区）概念的批判性考虑是必要的。我们在这个项目中分析的一些展览并没有从性别平等的角度出发。通过制作工作表并在我们的课堂上使用它，很明显，人物的描述是极端性别化的（例如，研究人员的形象总是男性）。很明显，博物馆里的一些女性形象给游客带来了不愉快的感觉。

Museum is a site for social education and continuing education and it is a site where people can find a new meaning of the world. However it is often the case that exhibits are unconsciously made through the conventional gender roles, and as a result the gender bias is reproduced and reinforced. In this project, we aimed to make an analysis of several exhibitions and museum catalogues in order to consider the represented gender roles and the hierarchical relations among the categories of art. At the same time, we attempted to make a worksheet for university students. This allowed us to figure out the visitors' perception and to explore the possible practices which can change the gender bias in museums. Consequently, we clarified these eight points.1.Strict gender roles can be seen among the workers and staffs in museums.2.Gender equality is not adequately put into practice in museum policies.3.Promoting archaeological researches from female perspectives is a pressing problem.4.Since the dawn of the Meiji era, the (local and national) governments have placed the full weight of their effort on promoting industry and art without accepting the citizen's and women's opinions.5.A critical consideration of the concept of "chiiki" (region or local community) is necessary in the local museum activities.6.Some exhibitions, which we analyzed in this project, are not made from the viewpoint of gender equality.7.Through making a worksheet and using it in our classes, it became clear that the description of characters were extremely gendered (e.g. the image of researchers is always male).8.It was made clear that some women's images in museums gave the visitors an unpleasant feeling.