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Marian Lowe Interview

Interview with biologist and social activist, Dr. Marian Lowe, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. They discuss Lowe’s background growing up in a small working class town with her twin sister Maggie Benston. Lowe talks about the pressure of gender roles while growing up, and later the sexism they both faced working in post-secondary institutions, including their interactions with male colleagues and being passed over for positions. Lowe also explains Maggie’s role in the women’s movement and her chemistry research at SFU.

Glenda Prkachin Interview

Interview with neuropsychologist, Dr. Glenda Prkachin, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Prkachin first talks about her background growing up on a farm in Ontario and how her interest in behaviour eventually led to studying psychology. She also discusses her experience working in male dominated lab environments and the kinds of research she has worked on. She also expresses her observations about how certain topics and academic fields of study were/are gendered. Prkachin also explains how having children and working part-time affected her positions and status in universities.

Anne B. Underhill Interview

Interview with astrophysicist, Dr. Anne B. Underhill, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Underhill talks about how she grew up in Vancouver and attended UBC during the 1940s. She goes on to talk about her various positions, including at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and at NASA. They also discuss Underhill’s experience with gender discrimination as a single woman working in an advanced scientific field.

Delaney Barton Interview

Interview with Delaney Barton for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Barton talks about her time living and teaching in the northern Yukon town, Old Crow. She discusses adjusting to the remoteness of the town, and the cultural differences she experienced.

Hannah Gay Interview

Interview with chemist, Dr. Hannah Gay for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Gay discusses her academic career, including her experience as a chemist working at SFU, including her friendship with fellow chemist Maggie Benston. She discusses Benston’s Marxist-feminist writings and activism while at SFU, and some of the criticism she faced for her outspoken views. Also discussed is Maggie’s illness and her twin sister, Marian.

Fumiko Ikawa-Smith Interview

Interview with anthropologist, Dr. Fumiko Ikawa-Smith for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Ikawa-Smith talks about growing up and attending university for English Literature in Japan and her later transition to studying archaeology at Harvard. She also explores details of her work at McGill, doing research on Japanese archaeology, and how her career was affected by being a wife and mother.

Elinor M. Kartzmark Interview

Interview with chemist, Dr. Elinor Kartzmark for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Kartzmark explains growing up in rural Manitoba, attending the University of Winnipeg, and later teaching at that same university. They discuss how gender and adopting a child affected Kartzmark’s professional career.

Erin Sherry Interview

Interview with Dr. Erin Sherry, for Marianne Ainley’s research project, “Re-explorations: Gender, Science and Environment in the 19th and 20th Century Canada and Australia." Sherry and Ainly talk about research in indigenous communities. They discuss incorporating deeper indigenous knowledge across academic disciplines and into government institutions, and the competing research interests of indigenous communities and outside organizations. Sherry also talks about some of her experience working with people from the northern Yukon town, Old Crow.

Pat Davitt & Anne Roberts Interview

Interview with Pat Davitt and Anne Roberts about two of their late colleagues, Maggie Benston and Kathleen Gough, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. They discuss Kathleen Gough’s political activism and academic career in anthropology, including but not limited to, the organizing of an International Women’s Conference in the 1960s with the organization, Voice of Women. Also discussed were Kathleen’s chronic health issues, and her final battle with cancer.

In the second part of the interview, Davitt and Roberts are asked about Maggie Benston, particularly her time working at SFU and the difficulties she faced in the male-dominated chemistry department, and her later work towards starting a women studies program. The interviewees also talk about Maggie’s relationship with her twin sister Marian.

Ursula Franklin Interview

Interview with physicist, Dr. Ursula Franklin for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Ainley asks about her perspective on western science, her experience attending university in Berlin during WW2, and the work she did at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Research Foundation. Franklin also discusses about her role in the organization, Voice of Women, in the 1960s and how she balanced being a mother while conducting her academic work.

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