Academic appointments in history in Canada

The Canadian Association of University Teachers /Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d’université (CAUT/ACPPU) reports in its 2013–14 Almanac of Post-Secondary Education in Canada that in 2010-11, of 1098 full-time academic staff in university history departments across Canada, 37.2 per cent were women. These figures include lecturers (38.9 per cent) and assistant (42.9 per cent), associate (43 per cent), and full professors (23.6 per cent). More recent statistics published by CAUT do not go down to the disciplinary level. CAUT first published data for gender distribution in 2004, for the period 2000-2001 and these figures reveal that the numbers of women in academic appointments in History have grown, though inconsistently, over time, including at professorial level.

Figure 1. Full-time Canadian University Teachers by Subject, Rank & Gender, 2000-2011, History

Source: Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), Almanac of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 2004; 2008-09; 2013–14.

The Canadian Historical Association advised in correspondence with the project team in 2018 that they conduct an annual survey of history departments regarding the level of enrolments and the division between tenured and part time faculty, but they do not collect information on gender.

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Canadian Association of University Teachers /Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d’université (2004; 2008-09; 2013–14) CAUT Almanac of Post-Secondary Education in Canada.

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