Following studies at the University of Göttingen, 1962-65, and the Free University of Berlin, 1966, Margrit Eichler, born, Berlin, Germany, 1942, won several grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright Travel Grant and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, that enabled her to complete both her M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) programs at Duke University, before moving to Canada to lecture in Sociology at the University of Waterloo. In 1977, she was appointed Associate Professor, Sociology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and full Professor three years later. Author of a number of books on women's concerns and family life, these include The Double Standard (1980), Canadian FamiliesToday (1983), Misconceptions (1994), and Family Shifts, (1997). Professor Eichler has also written numerous articles, book chapters, and reports and has served on numerous advisory boards, including the Ontario Law Reform Commission (1989-95), and the Addiction Research Foundation. She has also been President, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, was founder and coordinator of the Canadian Coalition for a Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, 1987-89, held the Nancy Rowell Jackman Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount St. Vincent University 1992-93, and has won numerous honours, including the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, 1990, and an Hon. LL.D., from Brock University, 1991. [Photo, courtesy Professor Margrit Eichler]