The Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program: Thirty Years of Action Across Canada, from 1989 to 2021

by Caroline D'Amours, Catherine Mavriplis, Hannah Young

This book describes the origins and evolution of Canada's 30-year Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program. The book starts literally with a bang, right as Montreal and all of Canada were rocked by the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique Massacre of 14 women, describing how the Chair program took on a frenetic pace as a single Chairholder, Monique Frize, tried to respond to an entire country's concerns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031540840
• ISBN13: 9783031540844
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"