Thank you very much.
Thank you to the witnesses for your testimony.
One of the things I want to talk about is the wage gap and attaining senior management. I worked in investment banking before I was a member of Parliament. I can remember comments made where I worked that if it came down to it between a man and a woman, a woman of childbearing age would not be hired because they were worried about the training costs and the costs of their being off on maternity leave. It happens in the real world, as disturbing as it is.
When I look at your chart—I see you've got extra charts in your presentation—there's one about the voluntary reasons for leaving work. Caring for children is the reason given by 25% women, 4.7% men, and then there is caring of another person or family responsibilities, which I suspect is probably caring for seniors, parents. Again, the rate of women doing that is almost double that of men. Obviously child care is a huge issue for women attaining those senior management positions. Does Status of Women do any programs to help with that?
Also, having men take paternity leave would probably help, but a lot of men don't take it, either because they're worried about their job advancement possibilities or the stigma attached.
Those are my two questions.