Science and Research committee  Definitely. Basically, there is the notion that men and women tend to, on average, choose different professions or fields of research. This absolutely can contribute to where funding is allocated to a significant degree. According to the Statistics Canada data I was looking at, it accounts for maybe one-third, or about that.

Science and Research committee  Absolutely. That's absolutely true, especially these days. Since my time starting as a student, there's been more and more talk about equity, diversity and inclusion as being important with regard to the allocation of funding, positions, promotions, etc. Certainly where it counts, you don't see it reflected.

Science and Research committee  It's hard for me to say if I've experienced that necessarily myself, but certainly one study I looked at found that with all things being equal, with similar funding applications, men were more likely to receive the funding than their female counterparts. It was a significant difference, a significant discrepancy.

Science and Research committee  Thank you so much. Good afternoon, honourable Chair, honourable Vice-Chair, and members of the committee. I want to thank you for having me as a witness to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research as part of a panel in view of the long-term impacts of pay gaps experienced by different genders and equity-seeking groups among faculty at Canadian universities.