Status of Women committee  Really...?

Status of Women committee  Yes, I heard it.

Status of Women committee  I do want to say that this is the kind of thing that was heard at the beginning of the Vancouver Island highway, and afterward the employers and the unions were both very, very happy with what had happened. The women got hired and the company was happy to hire them afterward; so

Status of Women committee  I'm not surprised because there is a weeding out that begins right at the apprenticeship level—and obviously not for labourers. You have a hiring haul. You have to go through the whole thing where they're lowest on the list; they don't get out. It's very difficult—that is, if you

Status of Women committee  There are places that are doing it reasonably well, but because the bar is so low, you can't really say that it's terrific. I share your instinct that smaller institutions might have a harder time, but it turns out that in many cases they actually are better at it than larger in

Status of Women committee  No, there's nothing.

Status of Women committee  They only give you the raw numbers—that's all—and how they reach a target, which I want to stress is extraordinarily low.

Status of Women committee  I think there's a difference if you have a competitive bidding process with equity as being bid, as opposed to a compulsion that they have to do it. I would favour the compulsion. If you make everybody do it, then everybody bidding will have to account for that in some way.

Status of Women committee  I think that's a really good question. I haven't put my mind to it, on what it means for the researchers themselves, but I think there is a point there. There are fewer role models for young people, fewer people teaching them who have time to do research. That's the important par

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I appreciate that question. I just want to echo what Professor Nesbitt has said because these are important words. I do remember someone who had been my mentor once asking me.... I'm an economist, and so that was unusual way back when I became an economist. I said I

Status of Women committee  But anyway, I think that's what a lot of women experience. I think what is incredibly important is the education of both boards and management, if that's what you're talking about there. But even at the level of tradespeople, you need to have education of employers. The unions a

Status of Women committee  This is quite complex for women now. Before the free trade deals were put in place, it was pretty clear that women were going to be more narrowly channelled into certain kinds of occupations and certain kinds of sectors. This was because we were going to lose the manufacturing

Status of Women committee  There are things that the federal government does, but generally not very well. One example is gender auditing. Usually auditing comes after the fact and doesn't change anything. That doesn't really help. Basically, you need to ensure that the examination of how something is go

Status of Women committee  That is something that people have struggled with for a long time. The barriers are enormous in the universities. Part of it has to do with research funding. It's often presented as though it is because women are selecting to do things in which they're going to earn the least and

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I'm going to talk about only three things today. There is a lot to talk about, but I'm going to focus on gender inequality as related to workplace segregation. I'm going to look at the skilled building trades, teenage work, and a problem with a government program that