Did Trudeau Favor Men in his Cabinet?

Published in the Globe and Mail

November 7, 2015

Whenever gender equity is discussed (or any other kind of employment equity) skeptics raise the concern that some women might be picked simply because they are needed to reach 50%, and therefore some more qualified men might lose out. But the possibility that Trudeau, for example, had more qualified women than men is never considered. Perhaps some men only got a cabinet position because although there were more qualified women, Trudeau wanted to boost the number of men to achieve parity.