It feels like both. I think you've said that it's a female profession that's under crisis, females serving females. We're talking about women's health care here, which is chronically underfunded, recovering often from previous cuts.
Like I said, we were recently engaged, or I should say still engaged, with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario about pay discrimination based on gender. It's been going on for many years and has cost us a great deal of money out of pocket. Each of us midwives has to contribute to those legal bills. It's very political. It feels very difficult. It's historically feeling unsupported. The profession can feel quite unsupported, and that certainly translates into the midwifery program as well.
When a cut happens like this, that none of us can understand or justify, “misogyny” is a word that's been used.