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Margaret Gillett

Gillett wrote two major works on education, ''A History of Education'' (1966) and ''Foundation Studies in Education'' (1973), before shifting her focus to women's studies. She offered two of the first courses on women in education at McGill University. From 1975, she advocated for the inclusion of a women's studies curriculum as an interdisciplinary minor, which was finally approved in the late 1970s. Her book ''We Walked Very Warily: A History of Women at McGill'' was a ground-breaking text as at the time it was published, there were no published volumes evaluating higher education in Canada or covering women who had acquired a university education. In 1988, she became the first director of the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women. Her pioneering role in creating a new field of study at McGill was recognized by her being honoured with the Governor General's Persons Award in 1996 and the Royal Society of Canada's Award in Gender Studies in 2004. The Margaret Gillett Award for Research on Women has been granted by McGill University in her honour since 1994. Provided by Wikipedia