Madam Chair, I would like to thank everyone for being here and giving such great presentations on everything that we're trying to do for women and girls.
I want to mention to Janet that for NSERC, PromoScience is a great program. The minister just made an announcement in London from the London Children's Museum. It was so cute. We got to see all the different interactive ways they're trying to engage young kids. There were a lot of girls there, which was really good, to be interested in these types of new activity. I thought it was really great.
Also, I hosted round tables in the last couple of years on how to get more girls into skilled trades. It was really interesting hearing the feedback that we received too. Some of the feedback that we received was mentioned today as well.
First my questions will be for Jonathan.
You mentioned the under-representation in the STEM fields. At the post-secondary level, I think you said that women continue to be under-represented in STEM and there's female under-representation particularly in the engineering and related technologies, math, computer, and information sciences. We know that a lot of young women aren't choosing to pursue the STEM fields of study, despite outperforming their male counterparts. Why is that in your opinion? Why is it that we can't get these young girls, or older girls even, interested in STEM? They do really well as doctors and lawyers so they're not under-represented there, but they are under-represented in these fields. In your opinion, why is that?