Status of Women committee  That would be the same situation with our department. As with CIC, we have a small number of dedicated FTEs who are involved in learning events and training, about which I talked a little. Basically gender-based analysis is integrated into our ongoing business, and it's part of

Status of Women committee  And that would be the same....

Status of Women committee  I could maybe speak to some of that. I think you had some remarks from one of my colleagues at Human Resources and Social Development, Barbara Glover, who was a witness here and who I think spoke to this issue. My sense, from looking at some of her data, is that in many ways it d

Status of Women committee  But they're therefore working full-time.

Status of Women committee  I guess one answer is the extent to which, in some cases, we know that women who are mothers of children, certainly under six, are choosing to work less than full-time because they want to do child care and childbearing as well as work. I think that's, in a way, why it is impor

Status of Women committee  You mean people like the sandwich generation women. Yes, exactly.

Status of Women committee  Perhaps I could just add to that. Donna talked about the number of female lawyers in the department. I was quite struck when I was preparing for my presentation. I wondered about our policy analysts, whether they're male or female. So what we did was we looked at the ES category,

Status of Women committee  I couldn't give you a specific example. I think what a number of us have said is that at various points in a policy development process there is what we are all calling a “challenge function” with respect to GBA. The analyst is expected to use GBA when it gets to the next layer.

Status of Women committee  That's an interesting question, because just recently our ADM policy committee looked at this question of gender-based analysis, and that's exactly what came out of that discussion, what they called the intersection. You want to look at female aboriginals, females who are disable

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, yes.

Status of Women committee  I would have to follow up on that. As you know, the EI Commission produces annual monitoring reports. I must admit I have not looked at the last one, but they produce a report every year on the impact.

Status of Women committee  I will provide the last year's report.

Status of Women committee  Sorry, this is with respect to the international convention?

Status of Women committee  Right. I'm not well placed to speak to that directly because I wasn't involved, but if you like, I can get material to you on what exactly we provided in the process. I think, unfortunately, it was before I arrived in the department, so I don't know exactly, but I will undertake

Status of Women committee  It's an ongoing process, but I would try to find exactly what we have provided for you.