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====Gender====
A majority of sitting senators are women. {{As of|2023|09|07|df=US}}, there are 51 women in the Senate out of 94 sitting members (54.4%).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/parliamentarians?expression=&refiners=4-1,&permalink=1240Create |title=Women in the Senate |access-date=May 13, 2023 |publisher=Parliament of Canada |archive-date=January 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123101022/http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/Senate/isenator.asp?sortord=W&Language=E |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2023/10/31/prime-minister-announces-appointment-senators | title=Prime Minister announces the appointment of senators | date=October 30, 2023 }}</ref>
The Senate has generally had a higher level of female representation than the House of Commons throughout history.<ref name="hillnotes-women">{{cite web|url=https://hillnotes.ca/2021/12/01/women-in-the-parliament-of-canada-100-years-of-representation/|title=Women in the Parliament of Canada: 100 Years of Representation |date=December 2021 |publisher=Library of Parliament}}</ref> The number of female senators equalled males for the first time ever on November 11, 2020,{{efn|name=GenderParity|Following the mandatory retirement of [[Norman Doyle]], there were 47 male and 47 female senators.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theconversation.com/the-canadian-senate-briefly-reached-gender-parity-heres-why-it-matters-153525 |title=The Canadian Senate briefly reached gender parity — here's why it matters|date=March 3, 2021 }}</ref>}} and surpassed males for the first time on October 2, 2022.{{efn|name=MoreWomen|Following the resignation of [[Vernon White (politician)|Vernon White]], there were 45 female and 44 male senators.}}
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