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Professor/Mother: The Uneasy Partnership

Of all the professions, that of university teaching is the one in which women have the least number of children; this is unsatisfactory if women professors are to be able to live as full a life as anyone else.

- Cited in Dagg and Thompson (84)

My entry to the academy and motherhood was almost simultaneous and not altogether easy. I completed a Ph.D. in Canadian Literature in 1991, a time when there were few annual job postings across the North American academy. I was fortunate, however, in obtaining a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Hence, I settled into a position at the University of Toronto, my host institution, and tried not ...

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