@Toulouse Lautrec

The claims of the Minister are not supported by the evidence, much less her proposed enforcement.

She claims 'sexism' because roughly 30% of CRC positions are held by women today, and anecdotal remarks allegedly made to her in decades past, with no reasonable proof of bias.

In actual fact, CRC chairs are awarded in almost exact proportion to male vs. female applicants, despite CRC policies that were punitive to women (see my first post for the analysis).     There may not even be a problem as the data has not been normalized for the effects of those punitive policies.

If a problem remains, the root causes specific to CRC have not been objectively identified and analyzed.

To threaten enforcement and impose quotas without understanding is both lazy and regressive; and to suggest that bright and capable female scientists can't succeed without interference is an insult to great women past, present and future.