Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Historical Context: Women in Higher Education -- HIGHER EDUCATION FOR WOMEN OUTSIDE CANADA -- THE EMERGENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR WOMEN IN CANADA -- THE ADMISSION OF WOMEN INTO THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO -- WOMEN AT McGILL -- THE COEDUCATION 'EXPERIMENT' -- FEDERATION -- Women in the Federated Colleges -- VICTORIA COLLEGE -- TRINITY COLLEGE -- ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE -- Women in the Professions -- MEDICINE -- LAW -- Coming into the Twentieth Century -- PROPOSAL FOR A SEPARATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN -- Academic Progress of Women at U of T -- WOMEN IN THE NONTRADITIONAL FIELDS -- THE 'PROPER SPHERE' -- Household Science -- Nursing -- Education -- Physical and Occupational Therapy -- Physical Education -- Social Work -- Library Science -- Women as Faculty: Limited Progress -- Nonacademic Staff: The Women Who Keep the Wheels Turning -- Extracurricular Life -- HART HOUSE AND THE WOMEN'S BUILDING THAT NEVER WAS -- THE HART HOUSE SAGA CONTINUES -- Making Their Presence Known: Women in the 19705 and 1980s -- Notes -- Chronology
Summary
This book is a preliminary attempt to gather together some of the materials of fundamental significance to women's experience at this University
