The Gender Equity Boondoggle - TFF Episode 36

   

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Published on May 5, 2016

The Fiamengo File, weekly on Studio Brulé.

In Episode 36 Professor Fiamengo discusses the Gender Equity Boondoggle that is burning money at Universities.

Links and References:

https://www.uottawa.ca/gazette/en/news/new-push-gender-equity

“When Allan Rock announced this, I received about 50 emails from colleagues, some of whom I don’t even know, saying how happy they were that this is happening. “
Martine Lagacé,
director of gender equity and diversity,
University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/administration-and-governance/policy-94-pro-active-recruitment-women-professors

http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/pssd/orgs.php?year=2013&organization=universities&page=7

Lagacé makes $122,410 per year (figure from 2013)

Law professor Elizabeth Sheehy, University of Ottawa, who lobbies for a woman's right to kill her husband is paid $173,610 (figure from 2013)

http://www.uottawa.ca/quickfacts/documents/QUICKFACTS_ENG_10.pdf

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11719214