For women in the Canadian Armed Forces, we are growing the numbers right now. We have been given a target of 25%. We're changing the processes by which we are recruiting them. If you look at our last ad campaign, “Dare to be Extraordinary”, it featured women specifically, and different ethnic backgrounds. It's been successful. Over the last three years, we've increased the number of women from 4,000 to over 5,032. We are right now doing an intake where 18% of all new recruits coming into the Canadian Armed Forces are women. We're exceeding the numbers for both visible minorities and indigenous youth coming into the Canadian Armed Forces, to meet and surpass the targets of the “Strong, Secure, Engaged” defence policy.
As far as retention goes, the retention has gone up overall in numbers. We're at about 15.8% of the total effective Canadian Armed Forces being made up of women right now. When we started this we were at 15.1%. Again, these numbers are the nascent ones. As we change in terms of how we go and do recruiting, and do much more targeted recruiting where we go and seek the talent we want from the Canadian population, we're confident that this will continue to go up.
In terms of the second half of your question, when we're talking about the confidence that we're seeing women have in the chain of command, we do examine both men and women. The sampling size is done to make sure that we understand from that...and from the regular and the reserve. This is where we're finding that both men and women have high confidence in the chain of command to be able to address their issues once they're raised.
That specifically was what I was stating there. We do have that data available.