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Status of Women committee  It is unfortunate that anyone would have an experience other than something positive in the Canadian Armed Forces. I can only speak to my experience instead of generalizing it across everyone in the Canadian Armed Forces. My experience has been positive, and I would like to thin

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  I would say that in the recruiting process there are a number of steps we go through, including an interview where we have a discussion with individuals about what it means to serve, what is potentially the career for which they are applying, and why they would want to join. In f

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. My own history is an example of that. I started out to be an engineer. At Christmas the first year, a 37% average in five of seven courses meant that I wasn't going to make it as an engineer. But do you know what? It was a great learning point for me that I have grown

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  No, you don't need to hear the rest about my career and its bumps.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  It's 10 weeks.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  I'll take that with respect to our recruit school. When there is an incident at the recruit school, there is obviously a duty to report. We can't respond to what has not been reported. It's not always the victim who will report that something has occurred. Our immediate step, a

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  The challenge with changing culture within the Canadian Armed Forces is the same challenge that we face within Canadian society, because we are a mirror of Canadian society. As I explained, because I usually do this as a little bit of a soapbox rant, when I watched TV growing up,

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  My comment would be from my perspective, from my own personal experience. I would have to ask: What is that male norm? I have always looked to those around me and those for whom I've worked as to their strengths, how they conducted themselves and what I could learn from them that

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  It was a letter-writing campaign where we went out to women who had released within a five-year time frame. The five-year time frame was so that we don't need to repeat any of the foundational training because they would have had skill fade. The response was actually very low. W

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  It's time for a female chief of the defence staff if they have the right experience and the right personal capabilities to assume that job.

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  To add to that, we provide the same benefits as the federal government to women who choose to have a family and to their partners in terms of the MATA/PATA benefits. We pay equally, so there's no difference in pay between men and women, nor in their benefits in terms of the allow

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  Certainly. It's 2019, and since assuming command in 2017, we have focused a lot of effort on recruiting women. As I mentioned, we trialled Women in Force, because we understand that women, and most millennials—because we got comments “Why did you do this just for women, why not f

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  Perhaps I'll start by first explaining two pieces that I can speak to. From a recruiting perspective, part of the pre-enrolment process includes actually educating those who are about to take the oath on our values, and certainly we have a number of ideas on how we can further e

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal

Status of Women committee  I would comment by using some practical examples at our recruit school. One of the obstacles that the recruits go through involves essentially a set of monkey bars that they have to go hand over hand across. We recognized that the height was causing a lot of injuries, particular

May 28th, 2019Committee meeting

BGen Virginia Tattersal