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Canadian women gain in Research Chairs.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief Article)
Women received more than a third of appointments as prestigious Canada Research Chairs last month, after bitter complaints of gender bias over women receiving only 17% of previous appointments.
"We're not surprised at the increase because we have been trying to sensitize the universities, but we are most assuredly pleased by the number of women this round," said Julie Dompierre, senior program manager at Canada Research Chairs secretariat, the group managing the program.
The Canadian government created the billion-dollar program in the year 2000, with the goal of establishing 2,000 new chairs by 2005. Although women are more than a quarter of full-time faculty in Canada, they had gotten only 17% of appointments.
But in the newest round, female professors were named to 67 of the 194 new chairs, which will increase their percentage to 20% of the 1,300 chairs already named.
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