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Status of Women committee  We've worked with Actua for many years. I must say we've learned through their mentoring program as well as their young girls science program. They have statistics that actually show how working with a lot of the younger girls helps them to develop a passion that helps them overc

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  I'm thinking it's between 25% and 30%. A couple of the plants are heavy capital, and that's where we have a tougher time with women.

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  We have now put in an internal quota. We have targets that we set for each of the businesses. We do our HR review every year. We tend to focus on retention rates right now. We've been trying to retain the women we're getting. We keep bringing them in, and if we're losing them two

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  We have zero tolerance and a strong ombudsman process so that you have complete privacy with respect to reporting anything, and a complete, open reporting system.

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  We've forgotten that.

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  Let me support Nancy's response, because I think when you come in as the CEO it's hard to get that initial respect that you're equal to the men. You might have a different approach, but you can make decisions in the same way, and there are multiple approaches...sometimes a woman'

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  The answer to the last question is no. I don't think I thought much about it back at the time, Judy. I originally was actually interested in pre-med. I was always interested in biology and life sciences, moved towards pre-med, and then learned about health economics and actually

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  I guess it was my early science teachers. I loved the sciences. When I think back to even middle school, junior high school, there was a strong interest from science teachers. They saw my interest and passion. Quite honestly, I wasn't always the best math student. I'll be the f

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  Yes, it is, very much, and—

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  That's all right. I was going to say we welcome them all applying.

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  I would just look through the programs that currently exist and those that are focusing in any way around the education side at the federal level. For example, we were talking about the national science strategy and how it was focusing on building science in grades K through 12.

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  Yes, and that's why we were recommending that the funding be equal for those schools. A lot of it obviously involves the metrics in place with respect to performance and how the money is being spent, just as we would have in any other location. There are metrics related to good p

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  I think the solution will actually come from everybody playing a role. I think business has a role in terms of a flexible work life and work styles for both men and women. Similarly, I think in communities there are different solutions, and yes, I think there's a role for governm

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  Great, thank you.

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. It is a great pleasure for me to appear before your committee today on a topic that is so important to the future of Canada. GE has been established in Canada for over a hundred years. In this country we have over 7,000 employees in businesses that incl

May 30th, 2012Committee meeting

Elyse Allan