Table of Contents
Introduction
Social and Policy Directions and Women’s Careers, Marilee
Reimer
Part 1. Transnational Studies of Careers, Programs and
Policies
Transnational Studies of Careers, Programs and Policies.
Introduction to Part 1, Marilee Reimer
Atlantic Canadian Women University Graduates: Creative Career
Strategies for First Generation Women, Marilee Reimer
Gendered Choices in Post-Secondary Education - Math and Science
or Liberal Arts? A Study of Women Students from Rural Newfoundland,
Monique Bourgeois
Postgraduate Transitions in a Transforming China: Exploring
Lived Experiences of First-Generation Female Students in Two
Chinese Universities, Yixi Lu
Towards the Good Society: Expanding Women’s Capabilities
through Community-Education and European Social Policy in Northern
Ireland, Susan Hodgett
Considering Gender in View of Community and Economic
Development Practices in Rural Atlantic Canada, A. Marguerite
Cassin
Part 2. Equity in Education and Government
Making the change in work-life equity – does it really happen?
Introduction to Part 2,
Liisa Timonen and Marilee Reimer
Reflections on Equity in the Finnish Working Life: A Case Study
on Master’s Students as Diversity and Inclusion Promoters, Liisa
Timonen, Erja Turunen
Diversity and Inclusion in Institutional Development in Science
and Engineering in Switzerland: A Bird’s Eye View by Ursula
Gut
Are We There Yet? Advancing Women in Canada and Australia:
Similar Goals, Different Policies, Eddy Ng, Erica French
Conclusion
Conclusion, Marilee Reimer
About the Author
Marilee Reimer is a Professor of Sociology at
St. Thomas University in Canada. She is the editor of an earlier
collection of articles Inside Corporate U: Women in Academia Speak
Out, Sumach Press (2004), Toronto, Canada.
