As usual, reading through the "Status of Women Supplement" is an educational, though depressing, experience. How long some of the changes are taking! Isn’t it ironic to work in a "world of learning" and yet experience attitudes, often on a daily basis, which tend to disenfranchise over half of the universities’ employees? Our point of view and contributions are just as important.

What threat do we pose, that those in positions of authority so enjoy silencing us? Diversity, in all its manifestations, should be encouraged, especially when our institutions are under financial siege by all levels of government and our recessionary economy. Many of us made conscious decisions to work in the higher education field to the detriment of our future pensions. Civility and empowerment should be "givens."

D. McLean-Lowe
Erindale College Library, University of Toronto