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Senator Art Eggleton

Senator Art Eggleton is deputy chair of the Senate Social Affairs, Science and Technology Committee.

How Canada can improve its STEM gender deficit

Elsie MacGill, an aircraft designer and Canada’s first female engineer, was featured in this comic book story in the January 1942 issue of True Comics. If she were alive today, ask Senators Art Eggleton and Raymonde Saint-Germain, would she be impressed that 20 per cent of Canada’s post-secondary STEM-field students are female? Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada
Elsie MacGill, an aircraft designer and Canada’s first female engineer, was featured in this comic book story in the January 1942 issue of True Comics. If she were alive today, ask Senators Art Eggleton and Raymonde Saint-Germain, would she be impressed that 20 per cent of Canada’s post-secondary STEM-field students are female? Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada