Other strategies that could stimulate women to stay
in science are a) various forms of flexibility with federal - grant funding designed to accommodate women with young children keeping these women
in the game; b) increasing the value of teaching, service, and administrative experience
in the tenure / promotion evaluation
process; c) providing on - campus childcare centres; d) supporting requests from partners for shared tenure lines that enable couples to better balance work and personal / caretaking
roles; e) stopping the tenure clock for one year per child due to childbearing demands; f) providing fully - paid leave for giving birth for tenure track women for one semester; g) providing
equal opportunity for women and men to lead committees and research groups.
The Chairman of the Committee pointed out the implications for Indigenous people of the Government seeing its
role as the mediator of interest groups, rather than as a negotiator with Indigenous people who had
equal bargaining power
in the negotiation
process.