Status of Women committee  I think one of the things, for example, when you look at boards, is to make recommendations around how you get more women on boards. In some countries, they've gone for quotas. In some countries, they've gone for targets. In some countries—and Ontario is looking at this—they've g

Status of Women committee  Also, now I know that we're going to have more aboriginal women and men in that group. It's these the kinds of things that can be.... As well, the federal and provincial governments can also lead by example.

Status of Women committee  Ms. Beckton is fine.

Status of Women committee  I think one thing is generally women wait to be asked. This was found in the United States as well. I'm part of the Harvard Women's Leadership Board, and we looked at some of the work that's being done to encourage women to run in the United States. They did have an ask campaign

Status of Women committee  I think the evidence we did in our benchmark study, which I have in front of you, showed there had been progress, but very slow. It was a study from 1987 to 2011. I think when you look at the proportion of women in federal politics and in provincial politics, we're still well un

Status of Women committee  This is a challenge that we face across many areas where women who are very competent—it's kind of a cultural norm in many ways—think they do not have anything to say, or they will say that somebody else is more qualified than they are. I think we do have to encourage women to lo

Status of Women committee  Right, and I'm not sure I would use the term “scattered”. I think that women tend to look more broadly when you have an issue. For example, in the corporate world, when a woman comes into a boardroom full of men to talk about a project and some concerns with that project, she mig

Status of Women committee  We will have a piece in there on gender intelligence—and of course, anyone that has a spouse knows how useful gender intelligence can be.

Status of Women committee  One is how women can navigate the system. For example, one of the challenges that women face in leadership is not having sponsors, whereas the men are often sponsored and that's how they advance in organizations. Women have not been able to get sponsors or they haven't been spons

Status of Women committee  Obviously, the centre is interested in women in political leadership—what we define as public leadership—which is both corporate and government writ large. With regard to our work with Equal Voice, this is funded by a foundation. We are creating a portal of research that looks

Status of Women committee  We know that one of the barriers is getting nominated in the first place. I've spoken to a number of candidates in recent times who ran into challenges in the nomination process. Women often hesitate, unless they're asked to jump into the ring. They don't necessarily have the sam

Status of Women committee  When Lisa MacLeod, for example, had a baby, there were questions raised about how she was going to have a baby and still be going back and forth....

Status of Women committee  The old-fashioned statement. We don't use it anymore.

Status of Women committee  Leading edge research and training is what we do, and one example is the benchmark study in front of you, which we did to set out the evidence base for saying that we hadn't achieved equality by looking at the leadership level. We also did a study on creating gender inclusive l

Status of Women committee  We work with private sector, non-profit, and government. For example, the benchmark study was done with Deloitte. The Clinton Global Initiative and the Public Service Commission of Canada is with us, and we are looking currently for some private sector partners. Our mining study