Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Editors’ Note xiii
5. Challenging the Chill 3
6. Paying the Inequity Tax 17
7. A Nurse Educator’s Experience in Academia 22
8. Women in Canadian Universities: An Insider’s View from Outside; an Outsider’s View from Inside 26
9. “Bend and You Will Be Whole”: Women in Canadian University Executive Suites 33
10. Dare to Be Brave: Stand Up for Yourself 47
11. No Welcome for a Woman: Seeking Colleagues in a Cold Climate 51
12. Part-time Language Teachers in the Academic Tundra 56
13. Sickness, Health, and Contract Employment 63
14. Perspectives from a Woman’s Place 67
15. Everyday Discrimination: We Know How and When, but Never Why 72
16. Transforming at the Margins of the Academy¹ 85
17. The Wandering Wombs: Women Faculty Empower Themselves through Friendship 92
18. Doing the Tango in the Canadian Academic Tundra: Keep Those Feet Moving Fast 98
19. When Life Gets in the Way of Life: Work/Family Conflicts among Academic Women and Men 104
20. On Being a Lady Professor 112
21. A Wedding and Two Funerals 116
22. Managing Men-in-Skirts 119
23. Disadvantaged? Not I! 124
24. Teaching Doesn’t Count 129
25. Downsize This … and This and This: Women and Academic Hiring 133
26. Don’t Let Them Know You Care 139
27. An Alternative Vision: Creating a Life Vitae 143
28. A Different Balance 147
29. Why I Didn’t Have Time to Write This Article 151
30. An Academic Life as I Have Experienced It 158
31. Equity Coordinator: Change Agent in an Unyielding Power Structure 162
32. On Being Homeless: Aboriginal Experiences of Academic Spaces 168
33. Biologist from Birth: Mother by Instinct 174
34. Women on Campus: Mosaic Myth or Melting Pot Reality? 178
35. What’s a Girl like You Doing in a Nice Place like This? Mothering in the Academy 183
36. McTeaching 189
37. Some Stones and Some Mountains 193
38. Princesses and Physicists: How Women in the Lab Shattered My Stereotypes 199
39. Different Parts of the Margin 203
40. The New Roads Scholar or the Effect Of Hypergyny on Universities 209
41. Left Out in the Cold … Who? Me? 214
42. A Few Things Learned 218
43. Pioneering at the End of the Twentieth Century 222
44. Happy People Have No Story?¹ 226
45. And the Wisdom to Know the Difference 230
46. If You Are Dumped On, It Is Not All Bad 235
47. Science and Business: Two Working Lives Compared 241
48. Largesse: Gains and Losses in the Classroom 248
49. “To Everything There Is a Season” 252
50. Postgraduate Journal: Blood, Sweat, and Tears 257
51. Postscript 261
52. Contributors 262
53. References 269