Status of Women committee  I'd just like to make one comment. As females, I think we've all been in situations where we've had it. I have found that perhaps the best thing I can do if I'm in that situation is to just take a moment, one to one. If you as a male said something to me, John, and I was uncomf

Status of Women committee  Or asked whether you were pregnant.

Status of Women committee  Well, that happened to me. But I think you can turn that around. I had my boss ask me that. I had two children, a boy and a girl. He said to me, “Oh, my God, you're pregnant. Weren't you going to stop because you had a boy and a girl?” I looked at him and I said, “Actually, I was

Status of Women committee  That just defused it. I mean, he was a dinosaur and I outlasted him. But yes, you just kind of wanted to say what happened—

Status of Women committee  But you can only pick them off one by one.

Status of Women committee  We're a very lean organization. Some of it does go to administration. About 35% goes to direct support of teams and another 35% goes to the support of the FRC, the regional events, because we have costs for that. Ideally, we would love to entertain perhaps $8 million over four

Status of Women committee  It's just an amazing international network. Again, the funding is key.

Status of Women committee  I'd say having females on those selection boards is going to be a significant step in the right direction because, again, I think that sometimes men and women communicate differently. They have different expectations. Again, having a diversity within that hiring board I think wou

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. We have a couple of slides that I don't think were translated, so I can't show them to you. But if you do have your hard copy, you might just want to take a quick look at them. You'll see the three-year federal funding that we have—and, Bonnie, you spoke to this as we

Status of Women committee  Very specific, yes, absolutely. The only thing holding us back from serving more of those underserved areas is funding.

Status of Women committee  Correct.

Status of Women committee  Like many students today, there are a lot of girls who would love to take shop class, but again when you start looking at timetabling there are really some hard interfaces and you can't do both. This is also because we don't have a grade 13. Having three kids go through the sys

Status of Women committee  I did. That's correct.

Status of Women committee  Having worked for 33 years in industry and engineering, to me, as a woman, pay is only a piece of it. As you talked about earlier, there is the flexibility. As you move up in higher management and you're leading a global team, it's just the hours, the travel. There is a whole lot

Status of Women committee  I've had the chance to work with a number of research folks at different universities. I have to say there is tremendous work going on, male and female, across the country whether it's Dalhousie, Waterloo, or McGill. To me, if we just even showcase that so our young people could