Status of Women committee  Some research has been done, and flexibility does impact retention. Flexibility does not positively impact women moving into leadership. I think the message is you might keep them because they're working, they're happy, and they want that flexibility. I know I do; I have children

Status of Women committee  I think the legal profession is the perfect example, because it has had fifty-fifty intake at the junior levels for two and a half or three decades now, and yet women are not making it to partners. In the legal industry, typically the partner level has about 20% women. You menti

Status of Women committee  Not in every area. Iceland has the lowest gender wage gap, for instance. It also has a very high proportion of women in politics, and that's changed in recent years, in particular since 2008. Scandinavia is much further ahead on the whole board issue, and particularly on parental

Status of Women committee  I think comply or explain is that middle point. It's saying that we're putting this on the table in front of you and on the agenda, but we're letting you pick your own targets. We're letting you deal with diversity in your own time schedule. If you're a mining company and you're

Status of Women committee  The sharing economy?

Status of Women committee  In terms of sharing of work and those sorts of things as well?

Status of Women committee  The reality is that there's a giant gender wage gap out there. Women are just less wealthy. Those types of alternatives provide an easier way to fund where you live, or to fund having a car or sharing a car and all these different things. If you go into these shared spaces wher

Status of Women committee  Exactly, and we don't have that experience here in Canada. We need it, and we need to be able to see it in leadership positions, not just in lower-level economic ranges in Canada. I think that piece can be part of our educational system, and should be. Teachers should be thinking

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I think that in leadership, whether it's political or business, our perspectives are not there as women. They are just not. Having one woman on a board or one woman on a panel just isn't enough. There's research that will tell you that it's at the 30% mark where you g

Status of Women committee  I can start on that. Unconscious bias is a very important topic. A lot of the work I was talking about in the financial institutions starts with unconscious bias training, because people need to understand that. I'm a positive person. I don't like to think there's some big cons

Status of Women committee  It's huge, and we do a lot of work around role models. I talked earlier about how people always assume it's the baby issue, and that's why women opt out of the corporate world. If you're sitting there at the mid-level in a corporation and you see no women ahead of you, you don't

Status of Women committee  Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. I'm going to focus on women and leadership—that's where my expertise lies—or more specifically, the lack thereof. I have a few slides that I've put together, but first I'll just give you some context around the numbers. If you compare us