Feminism and the Academy: The Experiences of Women Graduate Students in Geography

This collection of papers on women’s experiences as graduate students in geography seeks to contribute to the dialogue about women’s lives in the academy from the specific perspective of graduate students. Collectively, the contributors raise questions related to disciplinary equity, fieldwork, child care responsibilities – among others – and reflect on how feminism informs their engagement with these issues. These introductory remarks contextualize the five papers collected here by providing an overview of trends in graduate enrolment in universities and in the discipline of geography specifically. Some statistical evidence is followed by a discussion of how the graduate student experience is gendered.