Feminism in Transition: The Margaret Tomen Membership Case and the Demise of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For most of a century, female elementary teachers in Ontario's public schools were represented professionally by the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario (FWTAO), while their male counterparts were members of a separate organization, the Ontario Public School Men Teachers' Federation. Increasingly, a minority of women teachers sought the right to join the male body, which dropped "Men" from its official name in 1982. One of these, Margaret Tomen, launched both a legal and a human rights case to overturn regulations which forbade her from leaving FWTAO. The court proceedings upheld the status quo, but the human rights appeal resulted in victory for Ms. Tomen. By this time, the two rival federations had agreed to unite, and in 1998, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario was founded. The underlying issue of how best to define and achieve equality for women was left unresolved, however - a challenge for subsequent generations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".