A mental health crisis continues to swell. Among those seriously impacted are the students enrolled in Colleges and Universities in Ontario. The numbers are bleak, but how did we get here? A historical and material analysis is needed to understand the ‘why’ of the crisis and how students ought to organize and fight back!
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Cottage Interior with Seated Woman. Max Liebermann.
Graduate Students in Science: Exploitation and Precarious Work
Graduate students at the University of Toronto are poorly remunerated for our scientific labour. Our stipend is a poverty wage, and we are ripe for financial exploitation. This desperation drives graduate students to the gig economy for the money they need to survive. In the freelance editing world, trainees can expect low payouts and stressful deadlines. We need to provide a living salary for all scientists, even those who are still in training.
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Woman Ironing. Edgar Degas. Although an increased number of career paths are available to women today, there is still work to be done.
Women in Science: A Look at the University of Toronto
Have we arrived at a post-sexism scientific enterprise? Or are there still biases working against women as they work towards a career in academia? A discussion of the continued barriers in place, with a focus on the University of Toronto, which suggests that, although discrimination is no longer codified, there is still work to be done.
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