Status of Women committee  The challenge with going second is that Kate took most of my good material. That's fine. I have a couple of good jokes left. Thank you so much for the opportunity to present today. My flight was delayed. I made it just in the nick of time, so I'm grateful for that. For those o

Status of Women committee  Okay.

Status of Women committee  Of the ones I tabled, I think sponsorship is relevant. Sponsorship is subtle. For this conversation, I think sponsorship is one of the two critical ones. If men and women are entering the workforce in roughly equal numbers, and early on men are benefiting from more senior people

Status of Women committee  It was 26 out of the FP 500.

Status of Women committee  Yes; so there's work to be done. We've seen, in every country where they've done this, that.... The U.K. took a voluntary approach. They asked board chairs to challenge other board chairs to make a commitment. The umbrella is the 30% Club. The numbers are moving. I think they'r

Status of Women committee  Yes, for sure. I think there's a policy conversation to be had, and there are policy things you can consider. If, as a first step, you're considering anything, I do think something like the OSC's proposed comply or explain regulations matters, because I do view that as essentiall

Status of Women committee  What does our network of companies accomplish? There are three things. One, the power of peer pressure is quite significant. I've seen, even in two years, the OSC is driving a different conversation around boards. I think international pressure drove us to a different place, but

Status of Women committee  It's a very interesting question. When I look at it from a corporate perspective, it's a smaller sample size in smaller jurisdictions where you don't have as many headquarter companies. When we put out the census data we typically look at provinces and what's happening; I do thin

Status of Women committee  In companies that have more women among their senior ranks, that increased presence clearly has an impact on performance. We consider the averages. Of course, we could choose companies with many women in senior positions that are performing poorly. However, generally speaking, th

Status of Women committee  In an organization?

Status of Women committee  Leadership, it's as simple as that.

Status of Women committee  Yes, 100%. What I love about the evidence is that it takes the conversation away from anecdotal examples where people go, “My God, I offered her a promotion and she said no. I just don't think women want it. Who cares?” That's an anecdotal example. As soon as you have evidence,

Status of Women committee  Tonnes, and mentoring has been happening for quite a while.

Status of Women committee  It depends on the companies. Some companies have something quite structured. Some companies say, “You as a senior leader need to be mentoring three to five people; that's part of your performance evaluation. I'm going to find out from those people how you're mentoring them.” Ther

Status of Women committee  One hundred per cent.