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OTTAWA--A new report shows that women are seriously underrepresented in a fledgling program to help Canada retain its best academic talent. In October 1999 the government committed $585 million to create 2000 new posts under the Canada Research Chairs program. A report looking at the first four classes shows that women, who represent 25% of the total academic pool, have received just under 15% of the 532 chairs.

The purpose of this study is to explore the possible obstacles in women's pathway to a principalship;and examine if these obstacles have changed over the past two decades because of women'schanging roles.

THE SEATS HELD BY WOMEN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAVE REMAINED CONSTANT. CONTRARY TO THE MYTH OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN, STATISTICS SHOW THAT THE ELEACTORATE IS INDIFFERENT TO THE SEX OF THE CANDIDATE AND THAT CONTROL OF INCUMBENCY ACCOUNTS FOR THE SITUATION. THE SURGE IN NOMINATIONS HAS FAILED TO LEAD TO A SURGE IN SEATS BECAUSE WOMEN ARE GETTING THE WRONG TYPE OF NOMINATIONS--NOMINATIONS TO CHALLENGE INCUMBENTS, RATHER THAN NOMINATIONS FOR OPEN SEATS.

Women house heads were uncommon among Osaka chônin (urban ite) households. Despite the assumed importance of assuring family continuity, there were legal and customary barriers to women succeeding to family headships. Fifteen hundred seven records of household succession for Osaka in the period 1707-1872 include only twenty-two cases of female predecessors and thirty-seven cases of female successors. Given the number of households which disappear after failing to find a suitable successor, why were women generally excluded? Why were women less frequent than minor males as intermediary successors? Why were employees and distant male relatives more attractive than women as successors? Female househeads are less frequent after 1730 than before. The change resulted from fears of excessive business competition from branch households. This served to restrict the candidates for succession and increased the failure rate of Osaka merchant houses.

1. The illusion of continuous improvement -- 2. Outnumbered -- 3. Fashioned by men -- 4. Fitting in -- 5. Sexism and discrimination -- 6. How women are seen -- 7. How women are expected to behave -- 8. The maternal wall -- 9. Secrets of success -- 10. Slow and unsteady progress -- 11. Through the glass ceiling and beyond -- 12. Reports of the demise of feminism have been greatly exaggerated.

Ravinder Kaur (Ed.), Too Many Men Too Few Women. ₹1095, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2016.