Faculty initiatives to enhance the careers of women

• The Faculty of Economics and Business has a Gender and Diversity Committee, which became a permanent subcommittee of the faculty executive to advise the dean on policy and oversee initiatives, such as an equity scholarship awarded for the first time in 2010. An Appropriate Behaviours Workshops for academics at associate professor and professorial level began this year, as did a new mentoring program.
• The Faculty of Science offers fellowships to assist parents with substantial childcare responsibilities to travel to and attend conferences in their field. The faculty’s re-entry fellowships provide women with either teaching relief or research funds in their first year back at work after maternity leave. (Male candidates are also eligible.) Three were awarded in 2010.
• The Women in Science Project – sponsored by the Faculty of Science and including consultation with the faculties of Veterinary Science and of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, and the School of Medical Science – supports women in senior academic roles in science. Begun in 2008, the project was continued in 2010, when a seminar series for women in science was also initiated