Gender inequality in the sciences? It’s still very present in Canada.

A Monday Oct. 8, 2001 print from files of Dr. Tim Hunt, leader of a Nobel Prize for Medicine, in a laboratory in London. The Nobel Prize-winning British scientist has apologized Wednesday, Jun 10, 2015, for observant a “trouble with girls” operative in scholarship labs is that it leads to regretful entanglements and harms science. Tim Hunt done a comments during a World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea, according to assembly members. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Last week, Nobel laureate Tim Hunt done some ridiculous remarks to a organisation of scientists and journalists: “Let me tell we about my difficulty with girls. Three things occur when they are in a lab. You tumble in adore with them, they tumble in adore with we and when we impugn them, they cry.” Unsurprisingly, a comments were not good received, and within a week he had quiescent from a series of distinguished positions in a U.K.

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The comments triggered an general contention about a status, diagnosis and knowledge of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). While we like to consider that gender inequality in STEM is out-of-date and that as a multitude we’ve done good advances in equal opportunities, a numbers don’t always tell a same tale.

The law is, in Canada during least, really small has changed.

Still underrepresented

Despite an boost in women with STEM degrees, a commission of women operative in a fields has hardly altered in roughly 30 years. In 1987, 20 per cent of a STEM workforce was women. Today, it is 22 per cent.

Still underpaid

In 1997, women in STEM were paid 15 per cent reduction than their masculine coworkers. Things have improved, though on normal they are still paid

7.5 per cent reduction today. Here’s how they transport in a opposite fields:

Gender inequality in the sciences? It’s still very present in Canada.