How does the University of Calgary rate in terms of its treatment of female academics?
We are very lucky to have an administration and a president who are sincerely interested in addressing women’s issues and reducing the gender gap. Like I said before, there is still room for improvement, but the good news is that this university has every intention of making things better. Much of what female academics experience comes from centuries of male tradition within universities. It’s going to take a while to shift the culture into a new paradigm, a new way of thinking. Part of the solution is to increase the number of women in leadership roles, and I don’t only mean administrative roles. We need to recognize women who are doing amazing things for the university through community outreach and their involvement and influence outside administrative roles.
