{"id":3996,"date":"2021-05-26T15:13:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:35:30","slug":"canadian-corporations-say-putting-women-on-boards-comes-down-to-merit-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/2021\/canadian-corporations-say-putting-women-on-boards-comes-down-to-merit-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Corporations Say Putting Women on Boards Comes Down to &#8216;Merit&#8217;: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Canadian Corporations Say Putting Women on Boards Comes Down to &#8216;Merit&#8217;: Study\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><em>This article was first published in the Kitchener-Waterloo CBC\/Radio-Canada digital pages and is written by Tiffany Mongu.<\/em> <em>To view the full study, please visit&nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/kitchener-waterloo\/canadian-corporations-continue-to-exclude-women-on-their-boards-of-directors-1.6038195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publication page<\/a>. To view the highlights of this study, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/research-2\/photographs-may-undermine-efforts-by-accounting-firms-to-portray-diversity-and-inclusion\/\">Research Highlights<\/a> in CRIW&#8217;s Research Library.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Merit is very subjective and it is also gendered,&#8217; says Wilfrid Laurier co-author with Ottawa universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadian corporations continue to lack significant representation of women on their boards, in some cases saying getting a position is based on &#8220;merit,&#8221; according to a new study involving Ontario universities&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/kitchener-waterloo\/canadian-corporations-continue-to-exclude-women-on-their-boards-of-directors-1.6038195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian corporations continue to lack significant representation of women on their boards, in some cases saying getting a position is based on \u201cmerit,\u201d according to a new study involving Ontario universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[63,62,66,33,37],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criw-news","tag-centre-for-research-on-inclusion-at-work-criw","tag-criw","tag-inclusion","tag-news","tag-research"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}