one might reasonably expect that research chairs would be super smart

every statistical model agrees that in the super smart range of intellect, men outnumber women
...the comparative ratios increase as  the  intellectual level  increases, and the ratios favouring males 
is even greater in the S.T.E.M. ares of study, partly because woman show more interest in the study of arts and social sciences...certainly there are super smart female interested in S.T.E.M. disciplines,  but the numbers are relatively quite small

having removed the 'ability filter' in their bid to socially re-engineer our society, the Liberal government might be advised to assign the 38% of females  to research chairs of arts and social sciences