Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
In a recent report--I was looking at this document--we had testimony from the Business and Professional Women of Canada. They talked very specifically about the growing gap in terms of men's and women's salaries, and that income gap has widened, actually, between men and women who are university graduates. I think it was something quite astounding: university graduates who are female are making something like 48% of what their male counterparts make. There was a reference to a report, Equality for Women: Beyond the Illusion. That was a 2005 report.
When we see this report and hear the testimony here and hear from others, like the Professional and Business Women, I'm wondering why there are these discrepancies, these contradictions. Is it because of things such as that women, by virtue of the fact that they have so many obligations outside of their jobs, don't perhaps work as many hours or can't go after the promotions that men would go after? Is that a possible explanation for the difference between what we're hearing here and what we heard from the Professional and Business Women? Has there been any analysis of that done?