Status of Women committee  I cannot give you an answer to that because my knowledge of this is very limited. I'm speaking on behalf of someone who wasn't able to come today, so I will confess and say I don't know.

Status of Women committee  Is there no regulating--

Status of Women committee  From what I've heard from the women I've worked with, there are two big issues. Number one, it's faster training to get them ready for the Canadian workforce. As I mentioned in my notes, it's often ten years before they're actually certified to work in the Canadian--

Status of Women committee  It's credentials, that's right. The second one is facilitating language and getting into the Canadian culture and networking with other groups of women. So it would be some centralized facility or site that could, once they immigrate to Canada, say this is where they go, these ar

Status of Women committee  Yes, child care is a huge issue, and I can speak to this personally. I spent 13 years in post-secondary education, and by the time I was ready for a job and a tenure track position at a university, I was at prime child-bearing age. Many young women who are highly trained in these

Status of Women committee  I agree.

Status of Women committee  I can definitely respond as somebody who has been through that experience. As a scientist, I can say without a doubt that if I didn't have female role models who balanced life and family and science, I wouldn't be here today. It's definitely the case that women half a generation

Status of Women committee  For the most part, yes, I think so.

Status of Women committee  Hello, everybody. Good afternoon. Thank you again for having me speak here today. I'm speaking on behalf of the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology. I am a woman who entered a non-traditional career. I am a neuroscientist, which most people when I say it think