Status of Women committee  Yes. We need to have older girls mentoring younger girls; and it doesn't have to be women to girls. I think we've got mentors in every single school and in every single community, and that's what we have to work on, to think about how girls who are even just a couple of years old

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's correct. It's an area that we think has passed, but we haven't passed it. We still have a lot to do. As soon as you add in race and class, these areas are still very profound in our institutions.

Status of Women committee  Yes. Certainly in a range of subject areas, girls have outperformed boys in areas around reading and language for a long time. There have been many debates about whether this is nature or nurture, and whether girls are more socialized into language so that when they go to school

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  First of all, I think it's because there are small pots of money. I can speak particularly about the context in South Africa, where there are still many problems. But I think the people who are working on masculinities there have made a very convincing argument as to why the fund

Status of Women committee  I can speak for Quebec, where boys are dropping out at a much greater rate and much earlier, but I think there was a recent study done in Quebec—and again, I'm speaking particularly about that province—that looked at what actually happens to boys who drop out and girls who drop o

Status of Women committee  Yes, yes, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Well, I can't say that I have studied it directly, but I'm certainly familiar with some of the literature. In many high schools, there is perhaps more career guidance now than there might have been a few years ago. I don't know that this has necessarily happened everywhere. Pe

Status of Women committee  I think I would like to maybe say a little bit more about the area of harassment. I'm not sure if you're speaking to any people who are working in the area of cyber-bullying and so on. I think there still is a great deal of harassment in institutions. At universities, unfortunate

Status of Women committee  There's no question that researchers go after the money that exists in the priority areas. There has been some criticism of SSHRC right now, in terms of what its priority areas are, but I think we have everything to gain by really promoting the idea of special areas. Right now th

Status of Women committee  I think we have to empower the women around them. I think we have to give them a message. There's the idea that you can do anything, but unless we have a support system for girls, I don't think they can necessarily do anything. I would put a lot more into the social support syste

Status of Women committee  Well, I think some of this is— I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Status of Women committee  I think your question is very important. There is a whole range of ways to engage boys and young men, starting with who they are in relation to the girls and women in their lives. What are their own aspirations? What kind of privilege do they bring to the situation? For me, it'

Status of Women committee  I think you have to listen to girls and why they aren't going into scientific areas. I think there is a very complex set of messages here perhaps—or maybe they're very simple. Unless you have a participatory approach, unless you have other girls and women doing this work—and I k

Status of Women committee  Thank you, and thank you very much for accommodating my change in schedule. It was very important. I'm going to read my remarks in order to stay within the 10 minutes. I would like to congratulate the committee for taking on this very important issue of studying the economic pr