Affichage de 1982 résultats

Interview with physicist Dr. H. E. Lin, for Marianne Ainley’s research about women scientists in Canada. Lin discusses her childhood, education, and early career in Taiwan. She also explains the process of moving to Canada with her husband, as well as her teaching and research at the Prince of Wales College (later University of PEI).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Item is a photograph from an album of World War One-related photographs in the William Okell Holden Dodds fonds. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914 and was commanding officer of the 5th Canadian Division Artillery and served in France from 1917-1918.

Item is a photograph from an album of World War One-related photographs in the William Okell Holden Dodds fonds. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914 and was commanding officer of the 5th Canadian Division Artillery and served in France from 1917-1918.

Item is a photograph from an album of World War One-related photographs in the William Okell Holden Dodds fonds. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914 and was commanding officer of the 5th Canadian Division Artillery and served in France from 1917-1918.

Item is a photograph from an album of World War One-related photographs in the William Okell Holden Dodds fonds. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914 and was commanding officer of the 5th Canadian Division Artillery and served in France from 1917-1918.