This article deals with the problem of the access of girls and women to postsecondary education at the University Ottawa since the first diploma was awarded to a woman in 1920. To make a comparison between men and women, the authors make an in-depth analysis of the recent data in two fields: one is traditionally masculine and the other is traditionally feminine. The authors are motivated by the hypothesis that the situation for female professors and students has greatly improved since 1987, the date on which the University of Ottawa adopted a mission statement committing itself to playing a determining role in the promotion of women in all areas of university life. The authors thus attempted to evaluate the difference between men and women in: 1) registration, 2) part-time and full-time status, 3) programs in the first, second and third cycles, 4) hiring, 5) professorial rank, 6) salary and 7) membership in the faculty of Graduate and Postdoctorate studies. What emerges from the data is that students and professors are still getting caught in a sort of "academic funnel".