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Forty years ago, an intrepid group of professors and students paved the way for a new program dedicated to the study of gender – and sparked progress for women across the university by margaret webb IT STARTED WITH A SIMPLE QUESTION. In the 1960s, Jill Ker Conway, who went on to co-found one of the first women’s studies courses at U of T, wondered why women, who’d had access to education for more than 130 years in North America, had “so little to show for it in terms of roles in the professions, politics and the academy.” The question inspired Conway’s Harvard doctoral thesis. In 1970 at U of T, activists in the women’s liberation movement took that same concern to a meeting of the new Interdisciplinary Studies Department: Why were women still largely absent from curriculum and textbooks and barely present in faculty ranks 85 long years after the first female students graduated from the university The activists suggested a women’s course would help remedy the situation. Remarkably, two such courses would appear on the academic calendar the following year, and attract full enrolment. In fact, the courses were so successful that they led to the founding of what has become Canada’s oldest and most prestigious women’s studies program – celebrating its 40 th anniversary this fall. The courses also asserted gender equality as a key value at U of T. But it didn’t happen without a fight. Women’s studies grew out of the great “ferment” on campuses in the late ’60s, recalls Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, PHOTO: REG INNELL/GETSTOCK.COM summer 2012 33
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