/newsroom/taxonomy/term/4610/all en /newsroom/carola-weil Fri, 24 Mar 2023 20:08:06 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 297462 at /newsroom /newsroom/sabrina-jafralie Fri, 23 Dec 2022 03:48:44 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288603 at /newsroom /newsroom/virginie-millien Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:55:20 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288462 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-new-alberta-mayors-councilors-bring-diversity-provincial-councils-334379 <p>The 2021 municipal election was historic in Alberta, where Edmonton elected its first mayor of colour and Calgary its first female mayor. Calgary’s new mayor, Jyoti Gondek, says the diversity of the city’s incoming council will bring “strength to decision-making” at a time when a significant number of women and people of colour were elected to municipal offices across Alberta. Mayor-elect Amarjeet Sohi, a Sikh immigrant from India, will be the first person of colour to lead Edmonton.</p> Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:45:55 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 281936 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/same-gene-can-encode-proteins-divergent-functions-258507 <p><strong><em>By Cynthia Lee, </em></strong><em><strong><a href="/newsroom">���ϲ����� Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p>It’s not unusual for siblings to seem more dissimilar than similar: one becoming a florist, for example, another becoming a flutist, and another becoming a physicist.</p> Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:17:27 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25278 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/word-mouth-recruitment-can-help-workforce-diversity-258027 <p><em><strong>By Chris Chipello</strong><br /> <strong><a href="/newsroom/">Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p>Word-of-mouth recruitment is the most common way to fill jobs, and management scholars have long thought that this practice contributes to job segregation by gender: women tend to reach out to other women in their networks, and men do likewise.</p> Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:45:25 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25126 at /newsroom