Status of Women committee  I would hesitate to speak for Ivey, so let me just say my comments are my own. Linking women to networks is very valuable, and it's very powerful to link younger entry-level women to senior leaders, both men and women. Research shows that young women who have both men and women

Status of Women committee  I found that our Ivey alumni network is very responsive to my requests to link them to our Ivey HBA women, for example. If the call states explicitly that this is an initiative to move more women into leadership.... We are including both men and women. Indeed young men take my wo

Status of Women committee  In fact we think that this is very valuable.

Status of Women committee  The difficult issue that I was referring to was the gender discrimination and promotion at the mid-career level in firms. Once people have passed the entry level, they've already demonstrated they're adding value to the firm, and they are no longer just receiving investment, but

Status of Women committee  In this area, this would be cutting-edge. As such, I think it would be very valuable to have a nationwide study identifying firms that are moving forward with changing the rigid traditional career hierarchies and becoming much more flexible and developing a wide variety of career

Status of Women committee  Yes, and we know that these kinds of flexibility options move more women into leadership positions, and they are beneficial for careers of parents, so it's a fair as well as an effective way of moving women into more leadership.

Status of Women committee  I would say the image of women in leadership needs to be made positive. As many positive images of women in leadership as can be put out into the public consciousness is very essential for creating a more positive reaction. Women are still not quite 50% of our students in our bu

Status of Women committee  I would agree that work-life balance is one of the biggest challenges. Young women today are less willing to sacrifice family for career, so it's going to be more important that senior leadership positions be structured so that senior leaders at the very top of business firms can

Status of Women committee  There is clear evidence that, starting in high school, young women each year lose interest in science, technology, engineering, and math, relative to young men, and this makes it difficult at the university level for us to have equivalent numbers in our programs. There certainly

Status of Women committee  That's an excellent question. What I mean by the glass ceiling cracking is that once we look at the various highest levels of achievement, women who have made it through the mid-career bottleneck, who have somehow gotten through the phase where they have raised their young chil

Status of Women committee  I find that there are lots of opportunities for women to mentor other women. Here at Ivey, I teach a class in women in leadership with women who are in their early twenties. I find that our Ivey alums are very interested in connecting with the students. Each of the students in my

Status of Women committee  Changing those kinds of mindsets is possible. It's been demonstrated that if people are presented with positive images of successful women, that will help people to have a positive association between women and leadership success. So, having more women in responsible positions, m

Status of Women committee  I do not.

Status of Women committee  I was on the advisory board for a few years, and I did have the honour of selecting Canada's top 100 most powerful women for a couple of years, as well. That was a wonderful experience.

Status of Women committee  The Women's Executive Network, WXN, provides several types of support. One type is the networking events, so that women business leaders can connect with each other, hence building client-customer relationships as well as mentoring and sponsorship relationships with each other,