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Canada's new research chair program to retain top academics slights women.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
In 2000 Canada started a new program to reverse the country's brain drain by creating more than 1,000 research chairs at public universities. But leaders are embarrassed to report that so far only 17% have gone to women, who are 26% of full-time faculty.
Women are angry. Last February eight top female researchers filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging a failure of equity, based on gender, color, disability and national origin.
To blame are the inevitable old boys' network, plus the award choices being skewed toward the hard sciences and engineering, where men dominate. Less than 25% of the chairs are set aside for the social sciences and humanities.
Vancouver's Simon Fraser University has one of the worst records, having selected only one woman and 21 men as chairs. But its academic VP promises, "We'll be at the national average by the end."
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