WOMEN'S CAUCUS DINNER
The Women's Caucus dinner provides women in the discipline with the opportunity to discuss issues of common interest. Information related to dates concerning these events are available in the annual on-line conference program. In the past, we have held mini-job marts informing people where there are planning to be new hires, tips for graduate students about the interview process as well as talking about some of the trials and tribulations that confront women in academe. Many thanks to Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant and Kimberley Manning for organizing the event this year.
CPSA Women’s Caucus Dinner
Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 7pm
New Town,
1476 Rue Crescent (a two-minute walk from the main conference site)
Montreal
7pm (cash bar)
$37 (students) & $57 (other delegates)
You may for your meal on the Congress Registration Site until 21 May 2010. After this date, delegates are asked to contact the CPSA secretariat at cpsa-acsp@cpsa-acsp.ca
Menu
You may choose from the following options the night of the dinner*:
Soupe de choux-fleurs, citron confit, yaourt moutarde et aneth
Cauliflower soup, preserved lemon, mustard yogurt and dill
Ou/or
Chevre frais, concomres, raisins verts, miel et crouton de brioche
Fresh goat cheese, cucumers, green grapes, honey and brioche crouton
Main Course
Morue, puree de salsifis, shiitake, epinards et emulsion de noisettes
Cod, salsify puree, shiitake, spinach and hazelnut emulsion
Ou/or
Supreme de volaille, puree d'oignons, celeri-rave, choux de Bruxelles et pommes
Chicken breast, carmelized onions puree, celeriac, brussel sprouts and apples
Dessert
Pot-de-creme au chocolat, caramel et sel de Maldon
Chocolate pot-de-creme, caramel and Maldon salt
Ou/or
Vert: pommes, pistache, huile d'olive, coriandre...cremeux yaourt au chocolat blanc
Green: apple, pistachio, olive oil, cilantry...white chocolat and yogurt cream
*Vegan menu available upon request
Women's Caucus Minutes (2009)
Friday, May 29 / 29 mai 2009
12:45 pm to 1:45 pm / 12h45-13h45
Southam 624
Chair: Janice Newton
1. Opening Announcements
- Announcement of website (www.cpsawomen.ca) Please send job openings, announcements, etc. for posting to the web to Judith McKenzie: judith@uoguelph.ca
- To join the WC listserv: contact Michelle Hopkins at: cpsa@csse.ca; anyone on the list can send to the list: wc-cpsa@yorku.ca; if you hit the reply key, it will only go to the person sending the message
2. Business from last year: Motion on Professional Conduct. See report by Candace Johnson
at end of minutes.
3. Re-organization of Women’s Caucus:
*The caucus has been informally organized from the beginning with only 8-10 members.
Women are now roughly one third of the CPSA membership and at a different stage of
development. As the CPSA moves towards more professionalization, we also have choices
about how we want to organize ourselves. Do you want the women’s caucus more formally
organized? If so, what do you want?
- Research WC in other academic organizations – pros and cons
- a committee report with options and recommendations
- How can the web site provide service to graduate students? What do PhD students want? What information would be useful?
- How to get research contracts? How to publicize fields of employment (concern about women scholars being ghettoized into select fields)
- Can we list senior tenured members of the caucus with areas of specialization who would be willing to review articles?
- Concern that graduate students only hear about the WC by word of mouth; could we have a password-protected area of the web site for members only?
- junior colleagues need to consult re: negotiating and job contracts, transitioning; job talk; need for mentoring
- CPSA is thinking about a job fair in coming years
- mentoring would be helpful; when forming a committee, include a grad. student, and a board member for CPSA org. knowledge re: constitution
- would like to see sample course outlines, can these go on the web?
- Janice Newton: 2 editions of Course Outlines in Women and Politics have been published by Wilfrid Laurier Press – still available
- Grad. Students want info on various hiring practices
- want mentoring info on web, blog format for discussion helpful;
- Issues re: needs to be a Canadian server
* Volunteers for Committee:
- Genevieve Johnson; Nadia Verelli, Gabrielle Mason, Janice Newton
- Committee will do research, offer alternatives and make recommendations via the listserv and website before the caucus meets again next year.
- Committee will divide the work
- *Can departments provide information?
- * CPSA survey on diversity only ¼ of the chairs responded; action recommended:
4. Diversity Committee
Action Recommended
That all caucus members contact their department chairs to ask if they have sent in the
information to the CPSA for the diversity committee; surveys needed soon; contact person:
Yasmeen Abu-Laban: yasmeen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
5. Administrative Workloads
- This issue was raised last year, but we did not have time to address it. Are women especially overburdened with administrative work?
- Heavier teaching duties seem to be placed on women; men get releases or endowed chairs
- What’s the gendered distribution of grad/undergrad teaching?
- need to look at the whole structure of workload distribution; women don’t take on reviewing duties, or decline to be section heads; what are the reasons for this?
- Age factor an issue; challenge to balance research, teaching, service and family
- Women are delayed in tenure and promotion to full
- Some universities have “topped-up” those who lagged behind in salary
- Concern that all the big research chairs went to men
- Even the women doing the least teaching are still doing more than men
- Need peer mentoring so we have an idea of what to expect when asked to do something and what to ask for (releases, etc.)
- Problems taking maternity leave, need a forum for discussion
- Do we need more time for our caucus meetings?
- The Canadian Historical Association had a session on mothering – that led to valuable discussion
- Could the WC integrate some of these issues into the sessions before the caucus meeting to open up these topics?
- Find a more open time slot to bridge into the caucus meeting
- Shoul we focus on one topic per year?
- Suggest we use the dinner to discuss topics: a speaker, or topics for discussion at the tables
- we used to have speakers at the WC dinner
- Suggestions to Elizabeth Goodyear Grant (Queen's)who is programme chair for next year
- We want the information to get through to the men too – how do we do that?
- the Chair's meeting is crucial - messages need to get out to chairs; chairs hold more power than the board
- we should have a topic of the year to be a standing item on the Chair’s agenda
6. Reviewing articles: Re: Letter from Barbara Carroll
- Are enough of us willing to review articles? Are junior scholars having trouble publishing because no one is willing to review? What can we do about this?
- Review process should be blind
- Suggestion: if you are submitting articles or books to be reviewed, you should be reviewing twice that amount – good rule of thumb
- What is our obligation to review?
- Is there review fatigue? Pool needs to widen, some people have never been asked to review
- Need to review material in your area;
- Also need women reviewing in all areas – not just ghettoized in a few areas
- Caution against guilting women into doing yet more work
- Intersects with previous discussion
- Can WC generate a longer list of people willing to review in what areas?
- Need to find ways to bring junior women into the pool
- Australian example: Had 30th anniversary of their WC. When is our anniversary? If formally recognized, can get money for this
- JN and Vickers will try to get records of first meetings
- 1959 – first woman CPSA President – picture for web site
Jane Arscott agreed to be convener for next year, to collaborate with Program Chair and dinner organizer
Thanks to Melissa Haussman for organizing the panels and the dinner
Thanks to Janice Newton for chairing the meeting
Thanks to Jacqueline Krikorian for taking notes at the meeting.