Status of Women committee  I'll share my experience. It started in 1997. That's when they were approved. As I moved up in the ranks and found myself liaising with other more senior women, I found out about DWAO. Now it's interesting, because the unit in which I currently work is about 50-50 male and

Status of Women committee  I'll answer very quickly, and then I'll leave Ms. Davis some time as well. I think that we have to be careful in taking what is.... Women are wired a bit differently and we do like to communicate. We do like to talk about things and issues; whereas men are a little different alo

Status of Women committee  That's correct.

Status of Women committee  Sexual harassment is treated under the umbrella of harassment. There isn't a separate process. However, when that element of sexual harassment comes into play, it certainly depends on the nature of the complaint. If it's a comment, that will be treated much quicker and in a diff

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, and one more resource for me to educate myself on the concerns that I might not know about, but should be aware about as well.

Status of Women committee  I think, as Ms. Davis said, it depends. When you get into an environment such as combat arms, which is a very masculine-type environment, I think that sense of needing to integrate is probably stronger than in, say, a logistics-based environment, where that stress and that need t

Status of Women committee  I think that respect for diversity is probably one of the foundations, sort of cornerstone constructs, that need to drive equality in the workplace. We all know there are probably organizations that will say on paper that employment equity is important, but until that respect for

Status of Women committee  No, we don't track statistics or numbers. That would be an external party. I think Mr. Karol Wenek is an example of that. Was there a second part?

Status of Women committee  We don't actually do any formalized studies. Our role is one of guidance and advice. Actual studies, as they relate to identifying those statistics, are done by a party external to DWAO.

Status of Women committee  DWAO did not participate in that directly. I haven't. Individuals may have, in representing their role outside of DWAO, as a person of the CF. We didn't play a role. That would have been done, I'm assuming, by a research council outside of DWAO.

Status of Women committee  I think the reason you're seeing more senior people here at NDHQ is that the roles or the positions here at NDHQ are more senior ones, so by default those individuals would be more senior individuals, as opposed to positions on the ship, which would be more operational tradesmen.

Status of Women committee  Have I noticed the impact of those studies? I've certainly noticed the impact of...as we grow and evolve as an organization, we become more gender aware...the changes to policy in relation to those items. I joined in 1998, so I would caution that my experience starts there and a

Status of Women committee  I think any exit interview should be reviewed. Keeping our people is a tough go. We're an employer for whom, certainly, our people are our main resource. If there are patterns specific to women, I think they should certainly be looked at. We haven't been asked, I haven't been as

Status of Women committee  The alternative to a systemic issue would be an individual issue, meaning a problem an individual has that's dealt with by their chain of command. It's systemic when we start to notice a trend or a pattern. It is something that is typically built into the system, as opposed to th