Gendered inequities in the academy

Abstract

In this chapter, I reflect on my progression as a woman academic over 25 years. Drawing upon Margaret Kovach’s/Bonnie Stelmach’s approach of a letterchapter, I write letters to myself that were pivotal moments during my career. There is a growing self-awareness from these moments that move beyond the personal to uncovering particular complicity in the gender inequities of the academy. The chapter, while personal, is intended to reveal those elements of vulnerability, insecurities, and complicity. As such, while the story is about myself, there is an invitation for other women scholars to self-reflect on their practices, hoping to create an explicit interruption to elements of gendered inequities in the academy.