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‘Inclusive’ hiring has damaged Canadian research output: report
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A federal report suggests that Canada's equity hiring targets for research chairs, which mandate specific proportions of racialized, Indigenous, and women researchers, may have negatively impacted research output. The targets, set at 22%, 4.9%, and 50.9% respectively, were introduced to promote inclusivity in academia.
WHY IT MATTERS
This report highlights a potential trade-off between diversity goals and research performance in Canada's higher education sector.
According to the federal government's ‘equity targets,’ Canada Research Chairs must be 22% ‘racialized,’ 4.9% ‘Indigenous’ and 50.9% ‘women and gender equity-seeking groups’
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