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Social Science Women's Studies

Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers

Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy

edited by Rachael Johnstone & Bessma Momani

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
May 2024
Category
Women's Studies, Higher, Higher, Gender Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774869270
    Publish Date
    May 2024
    List Price
    $125.00

  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774869249
    Publish Date
    May 2024
    List Price
    $115.00

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774869256
    Publish Date
    Feb 2025
    List Price
    $39.95

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Even as Canadian universities suggest their gender issues have largely been resolved, many women in academia tell a different story. Systemic discrimination, the underrepresentation of women in more senior and lucrative roles, and the belief that gender-related concerns will simply self-correct with greater representation add up to a serious gender problem.

 

Although these issues are widely acknowledged, reliable data is elusive. Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers fills this research gap with a cross-disciplinary, data-driven investigation of gender inequality in Canadian universities. Research presented in this book reveals, for example, that women are more likely to hold sessional teaching positions and to face difficulties obtaining funding. They are also poorly represented at the upper echelons of the professoriate and must contend with a gender pay gap that widens as they move up the ranks.

 

Contributors consider the daily grind of academic life, social, structural, and systemic challenges, and the gendered dynamics of university leadership, all with an eye to laying the groundwork for practical and meaningful institutional change.

About the authors

Rachael Johnstone's profile page

Bessma Momani is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo and Senior Fellow at CIGI, specializing on the Middle East and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She is the author of Twentieth-Century World History (2007), IMF–Egyptian Negotiations (2005), the CIGI–CIC Special Report: The Future of International Monetary Fund: A Canadian Perspective (2009), and is the co-editor of Canada and the Middle East (WLUP, 2007). Dr. Momani has also published a dozen scholarly articles in numerous political and economic academic journals.

Bessma Momani's profile page

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