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Science and Research committee First, pay gaps must be properly measured by comparing what is comparable. In the case of people who publish at the same frequency and receive comparable funding, there is generally no gender gap. It's the access of young professors, particularly young women, to this funding and
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee I think women need to be aware that they can ask for a market premium. Very often, women fall off their chairs when they realize that some of their colleagues have market premiums, and they didn't even think for one minute to ask for them. My colleague was talking about how diffi
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee Collectively, they would have a much stronger voice if they were unionized, as opposed to each person negotiating a salary in the office of the head of the department.
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee At my institution, the parental leave for men is five weeks. For women, it varies widely. I'm not sure I understand. Most professors will take the parental leave that they have at their disposal. As for whether they take care of the children, I don't know. I have some interestin
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee It's definitely not. It's not a fifty-fifty proposition. You need a cultural change for men to decide to stay one year at home with their children and for women to do the same. Throughout society, that needs to change. It's not only in academia. The pressure under which academics
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee It's probably the opposite. Per dollar invested, they publish more. I would see it that way, as opposed to.... I'm an optimist.
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee I think it's something that we impose upon ourselves. Imposter syndrome is very much present. You think you ought to work harder to get your promotion and you feel you have to delay it until you're really, really good, whereas men will normally ask for a promotion whenever they f
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee Definitely.
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee I didn't do a retrospective study in terms of pay gaps. I've done some retrospective studies on publishing and grants, but not on the pay gap. It was the 2017 data. I don't have the history.
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee Women are systematically paid less. When I talked about the domination, it's in terms of graduates. We have more at the bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. levels in much of the universities. We have more women who graduate now than men. Men dominate in physics and engineering, but th
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee I think they probably are. If you look at the age difference, in every cohort women are slightly younger than men, so that explains maybe a $2,000 or $3,000 difference in terms of cohort effects. If you look at the Statistics Canada data, they are by groups. You have the median s
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee In fact, it's not that they don't have a significant impact. It's that we are able to explain the pay gaps by age and number of children. To give you an idea, we measure the percentage attributable to age, which, according to some results, contributes to 5.48% of the gap. So we'r
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee In Quebec, if I'm not mistaken, with the exception of McGill University and HEC Montréal, all universities have collective agreements, that is to say professors have a union. We haven't looked at it in detail, but where there is a collective agreement and a union, the gender gap
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee I've done a number of studies on the state of young scientists. We were talking earlier about the start of careers. Where the problem lies and where we really need to work very hard is with young women who are starting their careers and have children. That's where we're really la
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry
Science and Research committee In our study, we separated administrative positions such as rector or department director from other administrative positions such as laboratory director or bachelor's or master's program manager. When it came to less prestigious administrative positions, women were systematicall
September 27th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Catherine Beaudry