File consists of research for Ainley's work on Oral History of Montreal Women Scientists including correspondence, handwritten notes, and interview transcripts.
File consists of correspondence between Ainley and the editor of the University of British Columbia Press, Jean Wilson; an abstract and descriptions of chapters submitted to the University of British Columbia Press; style guides from the University of British Columbia Press; an author handbook from the University of British Columbia Press; and a pamphlet on symbols used for proofing text.
File consists a number of short articles by Ainley, including, "Women and Science: An Inside View/Femmes et Science: Vision de L'interieur," "No More Stereotypes" and "Women's Work in Geology: A Historical Perspective on Gender Division in Canadian Science."
Item is an interview about Allie Vibert's career, her involvement with the International Federation of University Women and her activities at Queen's University, during which she pushed for the enrolment of women into the Faculty of Medicine.
Item is the first part of an interview with Norah Toole about her and her husband Frank's lives and Toole's involvement with the University of New Brunswick.
Item is the second part of an interview in Fredericton, New Brunswick in which Marianne Ainley interviews Delphine Maclellan about the development of and perceived impediments to the development of her career.
Item is an interview with Monique Lortie, a professor at the Universite de Quebec a Montreal in biology, that discusses the development of her career.
Item is the first part of an interview in which Marianne Ainley interviews Sylvia Ruby about her early life and the development of her career including what influenced her choose a career in science and any impediments she perceived herself to face in becoming a scientist.
Item is an excerpt from a presentation on economics and immigration that details the globalization, the future of economics and how women can play a roles in the future of technology and engineering.
Item is two radio programs on women in geology broadcast on CBC's program Wild Rose Country, one of which interviews Marianne Ainley, originally broadcast on May 21, 1993 and May 25, 1993.
Item is a lecture about Aboriginal peoples, their common experience and their seeking of reparations from the governments in their respective countries.
Item the first part of a presentation on the history of women in science and includes a question and answer section.
Item is the second part of an interview with Dixie Pelleut, a former professor in biology at Dalhousie University, about her life and academic career as research for Fingard's monograph, "Gender and Inequality at Dalhousie: Faculty Women before 1950."
Item is the fifth part of an interview with Dixie Pelleut, a former professor in biology at Dalhousie University, about her life and academic career as research for Fingard's monograph, "Gender and Inequality at Dalhousie: Faculty Women before 1950."
Item is an interview in Grand Harbour, New Brunswick in which Wendy Dathan, a botanist, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
Item is an interview in which Helen Reynolds, a chemist and former warden of Royal Victoria College, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
Item is an interview, completed for the History of Women at UBC project, in which Rona Wallis discusses her experiences as a woman studying chemical engineering at the University of British Columbia.
Item is the second part of an interview in which Rose Johnstone, a former biochemistry professor and former Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at McGill University, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
Item is an interview in which Rose Sheinin, a former biology professor and Vice-Rector, Academic at Concordia University, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
Item is an interview in which Eva Rosinger, a chemist and chemical engineer and former Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
Item is an interview in which Genevieve Delmas-Patterson , a former chemistry professor at the Universite de Quebec a Montreal, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
Item is an interview in which Judy Mappin, a former chemist and owner of the Double Hook Book Shop, describes her family, early life, education and professional career.
File consists of possible peer reviews of Ainley's book on "Creating complicated lives: women and science at English-Canadian universities, 1880-1980."
Series contains material relating to Ainley's personal projects and research and professional projects. The material consists of transcribed copies of Ainley's early articles; drafts of sections, notes, research material and correspondence relating to "Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980"; conference proceedings, research material, notes and correspondence relating to her research project, "Re-explorations: new perspectives on gender, environment and the transfer of knowledge in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia"; material, predominately course descriptions and syllabi, relating to administering the Women's Studies Program at the University of Northern British Columbia; and photographs and slides relating to both her research and her personal life and hobbies. Series also contains conference proceedings, research notes, bibliographies, curricula vitae and other material.
File consists of speaking notes for a speech made by Ainley on December 6, 2000 at a memorial for the Ecole Polytechnique Massacre in Montreal, Quebec; Ainley's retirement speech speaking notes; and speaking notes for a presentation of Ainley's research for her Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded project, "Engendering Canadian Science: Biographies of Women Scientists."
File consists of research, conference travel and other correspondence; abstracts for Ainley's articles; conference proceedings for, "Re-explorations: science and environment in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia" and other conference proceedings by Ainley for presentations on the history of women scientists, women's studies methodologies and women naturalists; drafts of articles and material about Catharine Parr Traill; and short biographies of William Rowan and Alice Wilson.
File consists of speaking notes and conference proceedings; instructions for abstract submissions; abstracts; drafts of biographies of women scientists; correspondence; a short biography of David Ainley; A short story by David Ainley; notes; and a curriculum vitae.
File contains material relating to "Re-explorations: new perspectives on gender, environment and the transfer of knowledge in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia." File consists of notes on publications, transcripts of interviews, list of sources, conference proceedings and thematic analyses of an interview.
File consists of outlines, notes and drafts sections of "Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980."
File consists of material related to Ainley's administration and teaching at the University of Northern British Columbia, including course outlines and syllabi.
File consists of drafts sections from "Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980"; the book chapter, "Science, Environment, and Women's Lives: Integrating Teaching and Research," which was published in "Teaching as Activism: Equity Meets Environmentalism"; an article, entitled, "Mabel F. Timlin, 1891-1976: A Woman Economist in the World of Men," which was published in "Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal"; notes for Ainley's retirement speech; and a sabbatical proposal.
File consists of proceedings and drafts of a presentation of "Science lessons for everyone? The writings of Catharine Parr Traill, 1802-1899."
File consists of components of Ainley's Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant, "Re-explorations: science and environment in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia"; correspondence relating to her position at the University of Victoria as an adjunct professor and the status of her grant; correspondence requesting and extension to the grant; and ethics approval forms submitted to the University of Victoria.
File consists of drafts of chapters of each of the chapters of "Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980" as well as drafts of the epilogue, prologue, acknowledgements, table of contents and title page sections of the book; interview transcripts, transcript analyses and conference proceedings created for "Re-explorations: new perspectives on gender, environment and the transfer of knowledge in 19th and 20th century Canada and Australia"; a list of Ainley's publications; edited articles on Catharine Parr Traill; correspondence to the University of British Columbia Press; a curriculum vitae; and drafts of other articles by Ainley.
File consists of unpublished works and talks or presentations Dr. Ainley made on her research relating to women scientists in Canada. File includes 7 overhead transparencies for two of her presentations.
File consists of program, speaking notes, and printed slides for the History of Science Society 2006 Conference. File includes speaking notes and printed slides of Ainley's presentation on "Marginal landscapes of science? Gender, environments and colonial encounters in 19th century Australia, Canada, and New Zealand." File also contains pamphlet on the 12th International Conference of Historical Geographers Auckland, New Zealand.
File consists of two drafts of "American Ornithology at Present. A new Model for the Functioning of a Scientific Discipline" while Ainley was working towards her PhD and a letter to Dr. John Baglow from the Women and Work Program at Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
File consists of correspondence between Ainley and Susan Westgate, Assistant Archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives regarding the American Ornithologist Union.
File consists of articles by women in the sciences, especially chemistry. File includes articles given to Ainley as gifts.
File consists of three issues of the 2002 volume of "Chemical Heritage: Newsmagazine of the Chemical Heritage Foundation" and "Women's Contribution to Chemistry" from the 76th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference and Exhibition.
Subseries documents "Critical Turning Points: Women Engineers Within and Outside the Profession," a study funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) strategic grant. The study was broken up into four projects: "Women in Engineering: A Historical Overview," a project based on analyzing statistical and demographic data to establish a statistical profile of women in engineering; "The Explorers: Early Women Engineers," a project based on conducting oral histories and examining archival material to establish the reasons for early engineers choosing their careers; "Women's Exit from Engineering Studies, a project based on using semi-structured interviews to analyze reasons for women departing from their degree programs; and "Women's Exit from the Engineering Profession," a project based on open-ended unstructured interviews of former male and female engineers to analyze their reasons for leaving the profession. Ainley was a co-investigator on the study, along with the principal investigator, Peta Tancred, and co-investigators Susan Whitesides and Gillian Rejskind, and was involved in all the projects, except, "Women's Exit from Engineering Studies." Subseries consists of audio tapes and transcripts from interviews with female engineers, questionnaires from a project on Queen's University female engineering graduates by Alison Bowe, research notes, articles, conference proceedings, brochures and correspondence.
File consists of academic and non-academic articles by Peta Tancred and others; a draft manuscript by Ainley, entitled, "Feminist Perspectives on Women, Science and Engineering in Canada"; correspondence; a description of the context of the interviews and research project conducted at Queen's University by Alison Bowe on female graduates of engineering; and a report from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) about the task force on women in the sciences and engineering.
File consists of a report by the Canadian Committee on Women in Engineering, entitled, "More Than Just Numbers" with correspondence, notes and other material inserted; a report, entitled, "Alberta Women in science and Technology"; proceedings from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's 1992 conference on women in science and engineering, entitled, "Advancing Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics" with articles and other material inserted; a booklet by the Commission on Women from the University of Minnesota, entitled, "Mentoring for the 1990s and Beyond...: new perspectives on an old way to move ahead"; and an information pamphlet on women in the sciences from the University of Minnesota.
File consists of two audio cassettes from a symposium on women and engineering in 1991.
Item is the second part of a symposium on women in engineering that hopes to describe and provide concrete suggests on how to improve the experience of women working in the engineering field
File consists of correspondence relating to questions to be asked to interview participants; requests for information about women engineers; and other material providing background information on the demographics of engineering from professional and university alumni associations.
File consists of reports and articles with demographic information about women in engineering and recommendations for increasing the amount of women in engineering.
File consists tables, reports and other sources containing demographic information on female engineers in Canada; conference proceedings from the 9th Kingston Conference of the Canadian Science Technology Historical Association in Kingston, Ontario for Ainley's presentation, "Traditional Knowledge, Gender and the 'Spread of Western Science,' - a Reappraisal of Basalla's model"; correspondence relating to "Critical Turning Points"; and a list of the contents of Ainley's "Critical Turning Points" project files.
File consists of correspondence from Ainley to Peta Tancred; memoranda and minutes for "Critical Turning Points" meetings; an article by Tancred and Gretchen G. Schirmer, entitled, "Women's Participation within Male Parameters: The Official Presence of Women in Engineering Associations"; 1941-1991 census data on women in engineering; and an excerpt on engineering from "the History of Higher Education in Canada" by Robin S. Harris.
File consists of responses to Alison Bowe's questionnaire by female engineering graduates from Queen's University who graduated in 1986.