Gender and Racialization

In last year’s first UBC Sauder EDI annual report, we made a conscious decision not to include gender data that had been historically collected from UBC Sauder communities. The gender categories represented in our survey data, at the time, did not accurately reflect the true diversity of our communities. Historical gender data is binaried based on sex, and we therefore had inaccurate gender data as we know gender is self-determined and not always congruent with sex. We are pleased that improvements have been made to data collection at UBC and we now are able to showcase gender statistics for UBC Sauder staff and faculty groups.

Gender (share of women):

The data that we present on gender and racialization is collected by the UBC Equity and Inclusion Office as part of the Employment Equity Survey which staff and faculty are asked to complete. The questions in the survey were revised in 2021. Response rates for these data are: research faculty (92%), teaching faculty (80%), and staff (91%). We note that a data suppression policy has been adopted by the UBC Equity and Inclusion Office to further protect the confidentiality of individual respondent’s personal information. Only groups with five or more respondents are reported.

28% 38% 71%

Research Faculty Teaching Faculty

The survey question asked was: “Do you identify as a woman, man or non-binary person?” and the responses were: Woman; Man; Non-Binary Person; Prefer not to answer. Staff

Racialization (share of racialized):

35% 22% 46%

Research Faculty Teaching Faculty Staff

The survey question asked was: “Do you identify as someone who is racialized, a visible minority, person of colour, or an analogous term? The term “racialized” is used as a more current term than “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act (1995). For the purposes of this survey, members of racialized groups are persons who do not identify as Indigenous peoples (as defined in the previous question), and who do not identify as primarily White in race, ethnicity, origin, and/or colour, regardless of their birthplace or citizenship, and responses were: Yes; No; Prefer not to answer Note on gender data and racialization data for students:

Unfortunately, we do not have accurate and representative student data that we can share for some types of demographic information. For gender, some of our UBC data still reflects binaried sex data or does not have representative samples of respondents. Presenting only binary sex data is exclusionary and does not accurately represent the gender diversity of our students, including non-binary students. We recognize that gender identity is self-determined and not synonymous with biological sex, and we have updated our internal surveys and data collection methods to be gender inclusive going forward. We also do not have data on racialization to report on our students. We are continuing to work with UBC toward collecting and sharing data for our student populations.