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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Critiquing Canada's Research Culture: Social, Cultural, and Political Restraints on Women's University Careers
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Robbins, Wendy J. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2012
Women are "starkly underrepresented" as researchers worldwide ("The World's Women 2010," 68). In Canada, for example, men hold over three-quarters of full professorships and top research positions. Dozens of interconnected factors restrain women's research careers. These include "upstream" factors, such as gender, racialization, and class; social…
Descriptors: Females, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Women Faculty
Discriminatory Rationalization: The Equity/Excellence Debate in Canada
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Robbins, Wendy J. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
Virginia Woolf wrote that "the history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." Analyzing men's resistance remains relevant to understanding gendered hierarchies, including those in academia. Recently, when women academics brought a human rights complaint against the…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Females, Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation