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1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) |
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Paying the inequity tax / Jennifer Bankier -- A nurse educator's experience in Academia / Suzan Banoub-Baddour -- Women in Canadian universities: an insider's view from outside; an outsider's view from inside / Helen J. Brelauer -- "Bend and you will be whole": women in Canadian university executive suites / dianne L. Common -- Dare to be brave: stand up for yourself / Lillian Eva dyck -- No welcome for a woman: seeking colleagues in a cold climate / Ellen E. Facey -- Part-time language teachers in the academic tundra / Wendy Feldberg -- Sickness, health, and contract employment / Shannon a. Gadbois -- Perspectives from a woman's place / Jane Gordon -- Everyday discrimination: we know how and when, but never why / Fyre Jean Graveline -- Transforming at the margins of the academy / Joyce Green -- The wandering wombs: women faculty empower themselves through friendship / Mary Ricklos Hampton and Peggy Wilson |
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Doing the tango in the Canadian academic tundra: keep those feet moving fast / Elena R. Hannah -- When life gets in the way of life: work/family conflicts cong academic women and men / Lesley D. Harman and Petra Remy -- On being a lady professor / Alison Hayford -- A wedding and two funerals / Diane Huberman-Arnold -- Managing Men-in-skirts / Martha Keniston Laurence / -- Disadvantaged? Not I! / Anne M. Lavack -- Teaching doesn't count / Bluma Litner -- Downsize this ... and this and this: women and academic hiring / Jeannette Lynes -- Don't let them know you care / Harriet D. Lyons -- An alternative vision: creating a life vitae / Geraldine (Jody) Macdonald -- a different balance / Jennifer Mather -- Why I didn't have time to write this article / Denise S. McConney -- An academic life as I have experienced it / Susan McCorquodale -- Equity coordinator: change agent in an unyielding power structure / Shahrzad Mojab |
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On being homeless: aboringal experiences of academic spaces / patricia D. Monture-Angus -- Biologist from birth: mother by instinct / Anne Morgan -- women on campus: mosaic myth of melting pot reality? / Maxine C. Mott -- What's a girl like you doing in a nice place like this? Mothering in the academy / Andrea O'Reilly -- McTeaching/ Marianne D. Parson -- some stones and some mountains / Linda Joan Paul -- Princesses and physicists: how women in the lab shattered my stereotypes / Amy Rowat -- Different parts of the margin / Joan Scott. The new roads scholar or the effect of pypergyny on universities / Stevi (M.E.) Stephens -- Left out in the cold ... Who? Me? / Carol Stos -- A few things learned / marilyn Taylor -- Pioneering at the end of the Twentieth Century / Dorothy R. Tovell -- Happy people have no story? / Cécyle Trépanier -- And the wisdom to know the difference / Susan M. Turner -- If you are dumped on, it is not all bad / Sawni Vathamany-Globus |
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Science and business: two working lives compared / Irene Wanke and Peter Bowal -- Largesse: Gains and losses in the classroom / Deborah Wills -- "To everything there is a season" / Susan Wilson -- Postgraduate journal: blood, sweat, and tears / N. Rochelle Yamagishi |
| Summary |
Annotation Recently we have seen a heightened awareness of the unequal treatment of women in the academic community in general and, in particular, of how part-time, sessional, and contract positions are being used to exploit academics. Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra is a timely call for action. It is a brave testimony to the persistence and resilience of women who, against many odds, continue to contribute to the academy with energy and determination. Their touching stories will appeal to all working women as well as to scholars of social sciences and women studies, equity groups, human rights advocates, and agents of governments. Unlike many impersonal statistical reports on the subject of inequality, the narratives in Women in the Canadian Academic Tundra describe the personal experiences, both rewarding and frustrating, of women in the often inhospitable academic setting. Full-timers, part-timers, prominent researchers, and high-ranking administrators intersect with immigrant women, Aboriginal women, women of different cultural and ethnic groups, and women who are physically challenged and health impaired. These women come to life through these narratives and observations, offering several centuries of experience in the academy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Women college teachers -- Canada -- Social conditions
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Sex discrimination in higher education -- Canada
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Women college teachers -- Canada
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Women college administrators -- Canada
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Women college teachers
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Women college administrators
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Sex discrimination in higher education
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Women college teachers -- Social conditions
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hannah, Elena
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Vethamany-Globus, Swani, 1937-
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Paul, Linda (Linda Joan)
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| ISBN |
9780773569713 |
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0773569715 |
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