Some reflections on gender, sociology and women's history.

Abstract This is an account of one woman's experiences as an academic sociologist, as student, teacher and researcher between 1947 and the early 1990s. It focuses on several issues but there is a particular emphasis on the neglect of gender in the discipline itself, as well as the lack of sympathy for Women's rights and Women's issues amongst male sociologists. The impact of the new Women's movement in the 1970s is seen as a catalyst, especially in transforming the position of women within the discipline, who were no longer isolated but provided with significant peer group support