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The Gazette: Engendering a sense of power

Published: 8 March 2010

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the first International Women's Day. Peggy Curran, in The Gazette: From daycare to doctoral program's, the school system would take a big hit if women stayed home. … At universities, most full-time professors would be on the job, most associate professors, part-time lecturers and support staff would not. At McGill, 458 tenured and tenure-stream professors are women; 1,160 are men. At the Université de Montréal, 33 per cent of professors are women, up from 27 per cent a decade ago. At Concordia, 597 full-time professors are men and 282 are women. Concordia president Judith Woodsworth and McGill principal Heather Munroe-Blum would not be at work. But with female students outnumbering males in all but a handful of disciplines at universities, affiliated schools and CEGEPs, campuses would be pretty quiet. At McGill, in addition to such traditionally "female" disciplines as arts and education, more women than men study medicine, law, dentistry, management and environmental sciences…

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