Timeline Category: Women

  • YUSA Pay Equity

    From staff member: As a YUSA staff member I voted to strike and walk the picket lines in 1984. My reason for striking was to support the fight for pay equity. At the time it was important for me to see York lead the stage for pay equity.

  • Women’s Studies Program established

    Paving the way to York’s leadership in critical women’s, gender, and sexuality scholarship. Though Women’s Studies courses had been offered at York since 1972, Women’s Studies was formalized as a program in 1983. The graduate program, the first Women’s Studies program in Canada, was established in 1992. The School of Women’s Studies was officially founded…

  • Bridging Program for Women created

    One of the first university-level initiatives in Canada designed specifically to help women who had faced barriers to education gain access to university study; the Bridging Program for Women continues to be offered through the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. Making the Impossible, Possible: The Bridging Program for Women at York University.

  • Susan Mann becomes York’s first woman president

  • Centre for Feminist Research founded

    From the CFR website: Established in 1991, the Centre for Feminist Research has been inspired by the feminist movement, which led to the creation of the establishment of feminist scholarship around the world; and the gay and lesbian rights movement, which led to the development of queer studies scholarship; and the anti-racist feminist movement, which…