Currently Women and Gender studies programs at Canadian Universities have been loosing their funding. There are many reasons why that should not happen. An article in University Affairs (Canada's # one source for University Careers) By LAUREN MCKEON | March 8, 2017 (http://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/womens-studies-programs-fight-recognition/) explores this issue.
According to this article "Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have declared himself a feminist, both women’s rights advocates and scholars in the field argue that Canada’s problems with women also run deep. Besides rape culture on campus, there is the unresolved crisis over murdered and missing Indigenous women, which the federal government has been slow to act upon. Other evidence includes the still pervasive wage gap; discrimination against women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and rising poverty, which disproportionality affects women, particularly single mothers."
I have been disturbed (pre and post the USA elections) when listening to some Donald Trump surrogates who said that wage gaps were no longer there, and with Trump's many disrespectful comments on women. Is the situation in the US that different from the situation here in Canada? Can Women and Gender studies programs help inform some of the current debates about these areas? Which? What if any do you see as the roles of these programs in academia?
It truely is worrying, especially as there are not many anyway. In the United Kingdom there are only a few, and small networks of people studying/researching women's and gender studies. The British Psychological Society Psychology of Women Section is doing some great things and are increasingly becoming international - see link attached.
http://www.bps.org.uk/networks-and-communities/member-microsite/psychology-women-section
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