Science and Research committee  We have these results publicly available and we refresh them annually. I don't know the exact amounts, but we are very close to gender parity in both our assistant professor and our associate professor ranks. In the full professor rank, which is the senior scientists, we have more men than women, and that's legacy hiring that was done more than 15 years ago, so it will take a while before we reach parity at that level.

Science and Research committee  We have very generous leaves for women, because you're absolutely right: When a woman takes a leave, her tenure clock stops. In the university, you have a maximum number of years in most universities, and you go up in your sixth year for this tenure review. When someone is on leave, we stop the clock, so that year doesn't count.

Science and Research committee  Thanks for that question. You're absolutely right. If we don't get to the bottom of the issue of why the pay inequity is there in the first place, then we haven't corrected the problems. That's why I said that fixing the problem has to be part of a broader strategy that includes thinking very deeply about unconscious bias throughout the system.

Science and Research committee  As Susan mentioned, certainly with the contractors program, we do reporting. It's the same with some of the chairs' programs. I'm trying to think creatively about other things that are under the federal government's control, and one of those would be the salaries of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and young researchers.

Science and Research committee  Sure. As I mentioned, we've been thinking a lot about this. When we do have the opportunity to hire, we're ensuring that we are doing searches that are targeted at encouraging the widest range of people to apply, making sure that we are tracking who is successful in our searches and thinking a lot about whether there any unconscious biases creeping into our processes, to do our best to ensure that we're being open and welcoming to all.

Science and Research committee  It's not the centre of the universe, but I will say that our analysis doesn't show that at the moment. The analysis we did quite clearly shows we no longer have a difference between men's and women's salaries at the university. The difference we did find in 2019 was quite small.

Science and Research committee  Thank you Mr. Chair. Perhaps I should briefly introduce myself. I have been a faculty member at the University of Toronto since 1999. I served as the dean of the Leslie Dan faculty of pharmacy from 2014 to 2018. I currently serve as vice-provost for faculty and academic life, and I've done so for the last five years.