Books

(c) 2024 Springer

Part of the series: Women in Engineering and Science (WES)

Women’s Contribution to Science and Technology through ICWES Conferences

Monique Frize, Claire Deschênes, Ruby Heap, with collaboration of Karine Laporte. Foreword by Jill S. Tietjen and Gail Mattson.

This book discusses the legacy of the conference series The International Conferences of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES), which spans the second half of the Twentieth Century and the beginning of the twenty-first. The book first discusses how, at a time when there were few women engineers and scientists, a group of women organized a conference, in June 1964 in New York, which attracted 486 women. They presented their scientific achievements and discussed how to attract more women in STEM. This effort was carried out by volunteers, continuing the ICWES conferences over a period of 59 years. The authors discuss the organizers, the hosting societies, the scientific content, the changes in issues over time, and how the continuity has endured. The authors also discuss the importance of global involvement, shown through past conferences inlocations such as USA, UK, Italy, Poland, France, India, Ivory Coast, Hungary, Japan, Canada, and Korea. The authors also outline how the efforts were aided by the development of a not for profit Canadian corporation, the International Conference of Women in Sciences and engineering (INWES), which ensures the continuation of the conference series. Claire Deschênes and Monique Frize ensured that the conference database was digitalized and is now available at the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM, University of Ottawa Library, with the hope that researchers will continue to explore this rich database. As an important part of the Women in Science and Engineering book series, the work hopes to inspire women and men, girls and boys to study and work in STEM fields. This book is important historically because it documents a unique adventure created by women in STEM through vision and leadership. Their efforts established modes of networking and sharing their contributions in science, technology, and on gender issues.

(c) 2005

University of Ottawa Press

Learning to Practise : Professional Education in Historical and Contemporary Perspective.

Ruby Heap, Wyn Millar and Elizabeth Smyth, Editors

How does one become a professional? This interdisciplinary collection offers new insights into that fundamental question. Employing a wide variety of approaches and methodologies, the original and thematically linked essays discuss such problematic issues as the most appropriate site for professional education, the proper focus and content of the initial and on-going preparation of professionals, and the nature of both continuity and change in professional education. In the process, they raise challenging questions about the development of professional education in Canada and elsewhere from the early 19th century to the present day, in fields as diverse as the health sciences, law, engineering, social work, theology, and university teaching. An essential resource for those studying the professions, this book will also appeal to practitioners, professional associations, administrators, and faculty in professional schools, Hand to all those interested in the past, present, and future state of their professions.

(c) 1997, 364 pages

FIDES

Femmes, santé et professions : histoire des diététistes et des physiothérapeutes au Québec et en Ontario, 1930-1980 : l'affirmation d'un statut professionnel

Nadia Fahmy-Eid, Aline Charles, Johanne Collin, Hélène Dumont, Denise Lemieux, Ruby Heap, Lucie Piché et Pauline Fahmy (Dir.)

Publié en 1997 sous la direction de Nadia Fahmy-Eid, Femmes, santé et professions analyse l’émergence et la professionnalisation des diététistes et des physiothérapeutes au Québec et en Ontario entre 1930 et 1980. L’ouvrage montre comment ces professions majoritairement féminines ont progressivement acquis formation universitaire, reconnaissance institutionnelle et autonomie relative dans un système de santé dominé par la médecine. À partir d’archives, de documents professionnels et de témoignages, les auteures examinent les stratégies utilisées pour obtenir statut, légitimité scientifique et encadrement réglementaire. Le livre met aussi en lumière les enjeux de genre, les différences provinciales et le rôle des associations professionnelles dans l’affirmation de ces nouvelles professions de la santé.

(c) 1991

Canadian Scholar’s Press

Gender and Education in Ontario. An Historical Reader.

Ruby Heap and Alison Prentice, Editors

This unique collection focuses on women as students and teachers in the Ontario educational system in the ninetenth and early twentieth centuries. This collection of papers by outstanding social historians examines women’s experiences at a range of Ontario institutions, from the convent to universities. An illuminating introduction by the editors places the specific studies within the historiography of women and education in Canadian society.