Patron-perpetrated sexual harassment (PPSH) towards librarians is an under-researched but indicatively critical area of sexual harassment studies and library studies. Preliminary research indicates that PPSH results from numerous overlapping social structures. These social structures include but are not limited to patriarchy and rape culture, white supremacy, feminised labour and service work. This dissertation is the first study on PPSH towards librarians in the United Kingdom (UK) and focuses on public librarians. 143 UK public librarians were surveyed about their experiences of PPSH over the past five years. The results of this survey indicate that PPSH is ‘part of the job’ for UK public librarians.

The main objective of this research is to investigate women’s careers in tech. The purpose of the dissertation is to identify the factors that influence women’s persistence and advancement in the tech industry. With the ultimate goal of feminist research in mind, identifying, documenting, and collecting data on these issues is crucial to bring about social change in the industry and achieve equality. This dissertation attempts to understand and record the gender inequality in the tech industry and does so by conducting an extensive literature review informed by intersectional liberal feminism. The literature review discusses three major themes, namely: individual experience, culture, and career progression. This research underpins the design and agile development of the Binary in the Binary project, a proposal for a research tool used to test people’s perceptions on how gender affects career progression in the tech industry. The Binary in the Binary is a PostgreSQL database-driven responsive web application coded in PHP and JavaScript and run on the open-source Apache HTTP Server. The dissertation explains the development of the Binary in the Binary web application that uses the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern.