Science and Research committee  I think the support that women need continues past the time of their work period. I think we need to continue that pay transparency and examine what is happening in terms of pensions and the equity involved in the system. We're doing reviews right now, as you know, just to make s

Science and Research committee  There are a number of areas if the federal government wants to move into things. Something I identified in my work as being a serious challenge when it comes to the biases we are seeing and to improving and minimizing the pay gaps and the equity gaps—and we touched a little bit o

Science and Research committee  I'm not comfortable talking about how that compares with the Dalhousie situation. I can tell you that our review was done in October 2017, so it was just before the pandemic hit. This gap was identified at the time. I think the total available sample was 798 faculty who were look

Science and Research committee  These are areas we could certainly examine. The thing about pay equity is that you're dealing with confidential information at times. There has to be an examination of how we navigate some of this stuff. The other part of the data collection piece that creates some challenges i

Science and Research committee  I apologize. I believe the question may have been for me, but unfortunately I do not have the interpretation up. I don't seem to have that activated. Can someone help me understand what that question was about?

Science and Research committee  Thank you so much for that question, Monsieur, because it's a very important one. While universities and post-secondary institutions come under provincial governments and that is where a lot of the rulings, policies and so on happen, the federal government's programs have also

Science and Research committee  I think the answer is twofold. Folks who are looking at how we can come to solutions have to, first, make sure we are identifying the problem. For example, at the University of Guelph, we undertook a mental health task force to get a better sense of what was happening when it c

Science and Research committee  Thank you so much. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for having me here today to participate in this very important discussion about the long-term impacts of pay gaps experienced by differing genders and equity-seeking groups among faculty at Canadian universities. My