"When I was teaching at a university, a fellow faculty member shot a question at me during a staff meeting: When did I plan on getting pregnant? On other occasions, I was asked how I wanted to be treated: as a woman or as a scientist. Later, when I asked a university official why I was being paid in the bottom 10th percentile, I was told it was because I was “a woman.”

I've worked at a major Canadian university for 30 years. I find the situations described above as completely at odds with my department's and university's  ethos. Minister Duncan's descriptions are simplistic in the extreme. Scary. I'm motivated to examine her research record on the Web of Science.