Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers

Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers amasses vital, data-driven research that both corroborates enduring accounts of inequality for women academics and offers pathways toward substantive policy change.

Rachael Johnstone is an assistant professor of political science at Dalhousie University. She is the author of After Morgentaler: The Politics of Abortion in Canada and has published in Canadian Public Administration, the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, and the Journal of Canadian Studies.

Bessma Momani is a professor of political science and associate vice-president, international, at the University of Waterloo. She is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC. She is a governor on the board of the International Development Research Centre. Dr. Momani has authored and co-edited numerous books and scores of scholarly journal articles and book chapters, as well as editorials for the New York Times, the Economist, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Newsweek, and Time.

Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers addresses the enduring and systemic challenges and unfortunate realities of navigating the complexities of gender inequality in higher education. It is a necessary read for everyone in a position to make a decision about who advances and who leads in our organizations – colleagues, leaders, community partners, and government.

Cheryl van Daalen-Smith, RN, PhD, associate dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies; associate professor, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and School of Nursing, York University:

This is an essential, critical, powerful book that fills a gap in the field.