Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers

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.

Introduction: Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy / Rachael Johnstone and Bessma Momani

Part 1: Daily Life of Women Academics

Between Tokenism and Belonging in the Academy / Andrea M. Collins

1 The Precarious Work of Contract Teaching and Student Evaluations / Sandra Smele and Andrea Quinlan

2 Research Ethics Boards, Women Researchers, and Fieldwork / Tanya Bandula-Irwin

3 Women and Service: Valuing Service in Tenure and Promotion / Jude Walker, Elena Ignatovich, and Maryam Nabavi

Part 2: Gendered Dynamics of University Leadership

Witnessing Academic Recruitment Weighed Down by the F-word / Amorell Saunders N’Daw

4 Women’s Research Leadership in the Academy / Anne Wagner and Sandra Acker

5 Wage Equality and Opportunity for Women Deans / Rachael Johnstone and Bessma Momani

6 EDI and the University Leadership Ladder / Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Özlem Sensoy, and El Chenier

Part 3: Structural and Systemic Challenges Faced by Women Academics

The Great Gaslighting: BIPOC Women in White Academia / Aisha Ahmad

7 Academic Gender Wage Gaps in Canada / Catherine Beaudry, Laurence Solar-Pelletier, and Carl St-Pierre

8 Representation of Women in STEM in Senior Administration / Melanie A. Morrison, Joshua W. Katz, Bidushy Sadika, Jessica M. McCutcheon, and Todd G. Morrison

9 Women Faculty and Contrapower Harassment in the Canadian Academy / Jennifer Chisholm, Kasey Egan, and Kristin Burnett

10 Challenging Systemic Discrimination in the Canada Research Chairs Program / Louise Forsyth

Part 4: Approaches to Practical and Institutional Change

Institutional Culture and Implications for EDI Practice / Michael F. Charles

11 Reclaiming Kindness and Compassionate Pedagogy / Janice Niemann

12 Social Media for Women in Academia / Audrey E. Brennan and Katherine V.R. Sullivan

13 The Public Face of Gender Inequality and Allyship / Cheryl N. Collier

Reconciliation in the Research Ecosystem: It’s about Relationships / Sara Anderson

Conclusion: Silence Is Not Golden / Lorna A. Turnbull

Balancing It All as a Contract Professor / Melissa Finn

Index