What challenges are women in academe still facing today?
The challenges remain around creating a balance between family and career, to achieve what is expected in academe, such as acquiring grants, producing research, writing books or peer-reviewed articles while taking care of a family. For women who have young children, daycare remains an issue, but we’ll be doubling our daycare spaces with the completion of the new Child Development Centre, so we are making some headway in that area. It’s also important to note that gender challenges differ from one faculty to another. For instance, we have information that suggest that women in science are doing better in acquiring grants from major funding agencies, but the dollar amounts that they are receiving for their research is still significantly less than their male colleagues. That is a trend that we would like to reverse. In your opinion, do men and women face the same challenges? There is no doubt in my mind that women and men have different ways of pursuing their careers from a scholastic an
