Women and business
According to a recent study, almost half of Canadas major corporations have no women at all in senior positions, and in Quebec only 12.3% of 1,493 senior corporate jobs in the provinces largest companies and crown corporations are held by women. Three of those women -- Marie Giguère, Vera Danyluk and Louise Roy -- have agreed to talk about their experiences in the business world in a special forum organized by McGill University. The event, entitled "Women & business," takes place March 7 at 6:30 pm in the McGill Faculty Club Ballroom, 3450 McTavish Street. The panel, moderated by Morna Flood Consedine, an international consultant in human resources development and president of Maracon & Associates International, is part of a public discussion series marking the centennial of co-education at McGill and the opening of Royal Victoria College (RVC) in 1899-1900. The public is welcome to attend. No tickets required.
Speakers
Chair of the executive committee of the Montreal Urban Community (MUC) since 1993, Vera Danyluk heads the MUC budget committee and sits on the board of directors of the Montreal Urban Community Transit Commission (MUCTC). A McGill graduate, Ms Danyluk has been a teacher with the Montreal Catholic School Commission, a school commissioner, town councillor and later, mayor of the Town of Mount Royal. She is a former member of the Board of Governors of McGill.
Marie Giguère joined Molson Inc. last August as senior vice-president, chief legal officer and secretary. Prior to this move, she was executive vice-president, corporate affairs, and general secretary of the Montreal Stock Exchange, after spending 20 years at Martineau Walker, specializing in corporate, commercial and securities law. The author of a number of articles, Ms Giguère has served as a lecturer in McGills Faculty of Law and is a governor of McGill University.
Louise Roy is president and chief executive officer of Telemedia Communications Inc., a leading Canadian company in the fields of media, broadcasting and publishing. From 1994 to 1997 Ms Roy was based in Paris as executive vice-president of Air France. She has also held senior positions in the Laurentian Group and the Montreal Urban Community Transit Corporation (MUCTC), which she headed from 1985-1992. She sits on the board of Université de Montréal.
History
The opening of Royal Victoria College in 1899 marked the beginning of co-ed education at McGill University, as the women of RVC began to be integrated into the previously all-male classes at the University. Up until 1970 all women undergraduates were also members of RVC. Only those students whose families resided in the Montreal area, or who had been given explicit permission to live elsewhere by their parents or guardians, could live outside the protective environment of the College during their studies. Today RVC is McGills only all-women residence. It occupies the corner of University and Sherbrooke, next to the Faculty of Music and adjacent to the entrance guarded by the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, a prominent Montreal landmark.
The RVC Centennial Committee wishes to thank the Bank of Nova Scotia and Scotia Cassels Investment Counsel Limited, sponsors of the "Women and business" panel.
