File consists of the CVs of Sociology professors Dr. Susan Hoecker-Drysdale and Dr. John Philip Drysdale with accompanying handwritten notes.
File consists of a Government publication "Women in Science and Engineering Volume 1: Universities," a handwritten note, and correspondence.
File consists of archival research materials from the University of Alberta regarding women scientists. File includes photocopied archival documents, research notes, photocopied articles, and related correspondence.
File consists of research notes and correspondence on women scientists at Acadia College and University of New Brunswick.
File consists of records concerning Ainley's research at University of Victoria on women scientists. File includes financial records, SSHRC forms and grant information, ethics reviews, and correspondence.
File consists of photocopied archival materials on Kathleen Gough Aberle and Margaret Benston and accompanying notes.
File consists of photocopied archival materials on Margaret Benston at Simon Fraser University.
File consists of photocopied archival materials on Margaret Benston concerning her salary at Simon Fraser University.
File consists of photocopies of archival materials on Kathleen Gough Aberle concerning the Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology (PSA) Department at Simon Fraser University.
File consists of photocopied archival materials on Margaret Benston concerning her tenure, CV, and annual reports at Simon Fraser University.
File consists of photocopied archival materials on Kathleen Gough Aberle at Simon Fraser University.
File consists of photocopies of archival materials on Kathleen Gough Aberle concerning the Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology (PSA) Department at Simon Fraser University.
File consists of research materials concerning Canadian women in Physics, including handwritten notes, photocopied articles, newspaper clippings, and drafts.
File consists of research paper and notes on women attending Sir George Williams University, which later became Concordia University.
File consists of research materials and notes on women faculty at St. Mary's University.
File consists of research materials and notes on women faculty at University of Toronto, including handwritten notes, photocopied articles, newspaper clippings, archival materials, U of T publications, and related correspondence.
File consists of research materials and notes on women faculty at University of Western Ontario, including handwritten notes, photocopied articles, newspaper clippings, archival materials, and related correspondence.
File consists of research materials and notes on women faculty at Memorial University of Newfoundland, including handwritten notes, photocopied articles, newspaper clippings, photocopied archival materials, and related correspondence.
File consists of research materials and notes on women faculty at McGill University, including handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and photocopied archival materials.
File consists of research materials and notes on women faculty at University of Ottawa, including handwritten notes, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photocopied archival materials.
File consists of research materials and notes on women faculty at Queens University, including handwritten notes, photocopied articles, photocopied archival materials, pamphlets, published materials, and related correspondence.
File consists of photocopied research materials including published materials, archival research, and notes on natural history and science.
File consists of notes and "Science and Society" by Gerhard Herzberg in the Basterfield Lecture Series.
File consists of research on women in the National Research Council of Canada. File includes CV, photocopied research materials, and handwritten notes.
File consists of the report "Fifty Times Around the Sun: A History of the Montreal Centre Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 1918-1968" signed by the authors.
File consists of R. Norman Jones Index of Personal Papers and Photographs. File includes copies of the above in print and on computer disks.
File consists of 3 cue cards with handwritten notes probably concerning Canadian women scientists.
File consists of articles by women in the sciences, especially chemistry. File includes articles given to Ainley as gifts.
File consists of research materials concerning Margaret Benston including archival research, photocopied articles, notes, and related correspondence.
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.
File consists of articles by Jun Takeda, a Japanese Ecologist.
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 a grant application filed by Peta Tancred on "Critical Turning Points: Women Engineers within and outside the Profession" where Ainley was to collaborate on the project. File includes grant application forms and correspondence regarding the application and budget for the project.
File consists of records concerning the Canadian Committee on Women in Engineering including correspondence, meeting minutes, and other documents.
File consists of records regarding the collaborative project on "Critical Turning Points: Women Engineers within and outside the Profession" including memos, meeting minutes, proposals, drafts, and other documents.
File consists of the notebook of Jenny Fry, Ainley's Research assistant. The notebook contains contextual information and notes on other projects on women in the engineering field, notes on methodologies for conducting and analyzing research data, planning and information about potential interviewees, analyses of interviews, notes on lectures, inserted correspondence and other inserted material.
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 first 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.
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 a covering letter for potential interviewees detailing Ainley's background, previous research and the "Critical Turning Points" research. File also contains blank interview consent forms.
File consists of Ainley's ethics approval form for the University of Northern British Columbia to which the description of "Critical Turning Points" submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is attached.
File consists of the description of and budget for "Critical Turning Points" submitted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
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 edited draft copies of the covering letters, questions to be asked to interviewees and Alison Bowe's covering letter for the questionnaire sent to female engineering graduates from Queen's University.
File consists of correspondence between Ainley and her research assistant, Jenny Fry, relating to interview requests; responses to Ainley's interview requests; notes; and envelopes marked, "return to sender."
File consists of thank-you letters sent to "Critical Turning Points" interview participants.
File consists of lists of information about interviewees interviewed by Ainley's research assistant, Jenny Fry.
File consists of a paper presented at the 6th Interdisciplinary Congress on Women in Adelaide, Australia in 1996 by Rajendra Prasad Jaiswal, entitled, "Sex Discrimination and Status of Women in Science and Engineering Professions in India"; an annotated article entitled, "On Occupation" by Andrews D. Carson; an article by Jeanne Inch and Monqiue Frize, entitled, "In Their Own Words: Stories by women engineers about themselves"; and a pamphlet from the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology.