VIEWPOINT: COMPARING LIBRARIAN AND TEACHER SALARIES IS VALID

Some would have us believe that tieing librarians' salaries to teachers' salaries does not help librarians (see Betty Turock's editorial in The Bottom Line 1/1). She contends that since both professions are gender‐typed, with salary standards influenced not only by market forces but by the culturally determined patterns of unequal compensation found in occupations where women predominate, we would be better off forgetting teachers' salaries as benchmarks in our salary negotiations.