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Colloquium: SC Virtual Colloquium March 18, 2021, 2:00-4:00pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only

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March 18, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Topic: How Much has Changed? The Status of Women in Contemporary Society

Chair: Giuliana Katz

SC Colloquium: March 18, 2:00-4:00pm. Fellows and External Fellows Only.

Readings:

1. Globe and Mail on Women and Power: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-power-gap/

2. U of T to implement salary increase for more than 800 women faculty members: U of T to implement salary increase for more than 800 women faculty members (utoronto.ca)

3. Symposium on Women and the Workplace – Canada.ca: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/campaigns/symposium-women-workplace.html

4. Why women are poor at science, by Harvard president | Science | The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jan/18/educationsgendergap.genderissues

5. The column about Jill Biden in the Wall Street Journal is worse than you thought – The Washington Post: See PDF below.

6. Making Employment Equity Programs Work for Women : https://www.jstor.org/stable/3552345

7. The gender wage gap in Canada: 1998 to 2018 https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-004-m/75-004-m2019004-eng.htm .

8. A screen shot presenting some of the data from the Income by Occupation attachment in a readable format. I would like to be able to refer to it at the appropriate time in my presentation. See PDF below.

9. The attached spreadsheet, Income by Occupation may be of interest to people who want to compare earnings between, genders, occupations, regions, or attachment to the labour force. The data is a snippet taken from Statistics Canada’s 2016 Census, Catalogue #98-400-X2016304. People who want further information can download it from the Census, and may find it convenient to paste parts of it into this spreadsheet for uncluttered analysis. Some data from this spreadsheet will be discussed in my presentation. See PDF below.

The link to register is https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=JsKqeAMvTUuQN7RtVsVSEKo-DHaj3xRAluk2q6EEM7NUNldTQ1hGUFoyUDhFOENKRUFJQlAyMjAyWi4u

The deadline to register is 8:00am on the day of the meeting. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants only.

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[pdf-embedder url=”https://seniorcollege.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Income-by-Occupation.pdf” title=”Income by Occupation”]

[pdf-embedder url=”https://seniorcollege.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Jill-Biden-isnt-a-real-doctor.pdf” title=”Jill Biden isn’t a real doctor”]

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