Perceived gender and race of hospital and health ministry executives
| Characteristic | No. (%) of ministry leaders* | No. (%) of leaders in centralized hospital systems† | No. (%) of leaders in regional hospital systems‡ | No. (%) of leaders in individual hospitals§ | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AB | SK | NS | PE | Total | BC | NB | NL | Total | MB | ON | QC | Total | ||
| Perceived gender¶ | ||||||||||||||
| Woman | 37/78 (47.4) | 5/11 (45.5) | 12/27 (44.4) | 16/25 (64.0) | < 5/9 | 36/72 (50.0) | 62/106 (58.5) | 32/52 (61.5) | 26/56 (46.4) | 120/214 (56.1) | 71/143 (49.7) | 727/1578 (46.1) | 528/937 (56.4) | 1326/2658 (49.9) |
| Perceived race¶ | ||||||||||||||
| Racialized | < 5/80 | < 5/11 | < 5/26 | < 5/24 | 0/9 (0) | 5/70 (7.1) | 24/103 (23.3) | 0/51 (0) | 0/55 (0.0) | 24/209 (11.5) | 12/143 (8.4) | 199/1562 (12.7) | 32/928 (3.4) | 243/2633 (9.2) |
| Perceived race and gender | ||||||||||||||
| Racialized + woman | 0 (0) | < 5/11 | 0/26 (0.0) | < 5/24 | 0/9 (0) | < 5/70 | 15/102 (14.7) | 0/51 (0) | 0/55 (0.0) | 15/208 (7.2) | 7/141 (5.0) | 73/1542 (4.7) | 18/921 (2.0) | 98/2604 (3.8) |
Note: AB = Alberta, BC = British Columbia, MB = Manitoba, NB = New Brunswick, NL = Newfoundland and Labrador, NS = Nova Scotia, ON = Ontario, PE = Prince Edward Island, QC = Quebec, SK = Saskatchewan.
↵* Leadership from provincial and territorial government ministries.
↵† Provinces with 1 centralized hospital executive team, overseeing all provincial hospitals.
↵‡ Provinces with a few regional hospital executive teams, overseeing hospitals in their regions.
↵§ Provinces with executive teams for each individual hospital or a hospital network.
↵¶ The denominator totals differ between gender and race data because of differences in reviewer consensus.