Thank you for your testimony. It's very informative.
I'd like to focus my questions on the financing of research, so I'll be directing them to Ms. Walden.
I looked at a study that was carried out in 2010 among Quebec universities that showed that men are better financed than women in terms of their research in the STEM fields. I also notice there's a study on tenures and funding allocated by the tri-council that showed that on average women and men obtained about the same funding for their research.
It seems that there's a difference in funding between men and women in terms of the private sector, and that might be something we should look at. From that, maybe we can deduce that the private sector is more prone to financing research that's more male dominant, such as engineering and computer programming.
Is that a conclusion that you've looked at in the past?