I don't need to have a wish list, because I would prefer to rely on the scientific studies that have produced information on what actually works. What actually works is to make it perfectly clear to universities and colleges that they are there to serve everyone in the country, which includes women and men equally, which means that whatever ameliorative programs are necessary to get women and diverse individuals into the STEM areas of education need to be done, should be done, and have to be done or their funding could very well be on the line.
Governments should not simply feel that they have to hand money out in ways that have not been successful in solving these kinds of problems. It is completely unfair to women in any of the professions and in any of the sort of male-predominant sectors to carry the burden of solving the problems of non-government regulation at the same time that they're meant to achieve the level of qualifications that the men against whom they are competing don't have to carry, in addition to carrying the heavy load of unpaid work obligations that they normally have and that are not going to be compensated for by having temporary child care programs made available while they go to specially funded local programs.
In Ontario, for example, many years ago there was a very aggressive women's apprenticeship program that contained all of the elements that have been described by the Irving Shipbuilding project. It was provided by the Government of Ontario and it was available in all the communities across Ontario. It included access to affordable tools. It included supports for women to be able to overcome all sorts of barriers in their particular apprenticeship programs.
So there are specific things that work. Basically what it means is that the burdens of unpaid work, the burdens of the cost, the burdens of addressing the structural discrimination built into these different areas all have to be shouldered by governments, which uniquely are able to raise revenue and target spending in ways that are really guided by large-scale studies that have proven what works, including taking people to court when they won't comply with the law and using things other than just sort of carrots to induce compliance.
We live in an era in which government seems to believe that it's going to become more effective as a government by letting the market do what it wants, and then acting as if, when the market actually produces something constructive like the Irving Shipbuilding project, there's some sort of a big turnaround on the horizon. It just doesn't work that way and the data makes that perfectly clear.