Jill Vickers

Dr. Jill McCalla Vickers, Ph.D (born 1942) is a notable Canadian feminist political scientist and professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Vickers is particularly notable for her groundbreaking work in the field of gender in politics. Vickers was born in Britain during World War II, to an English mother and a father who was a Canadian serviceman posted in England. After the war she and her war-bride mother followed her father to Canada, where they resided in Hamilton until her parents' divorce. Thereafter, she and he mother moved to Toronto, where she graduated from Harbord Collegiate. She briefly attended Queen's University, transferring to Carleton, where she graduated with a B.A. in Political Science in 1965....