HALIFAX, Canada – Some women aren’t satisfied by being the first to go through a door. They say women should get to speak first in class, too.

“(In) the management department, women get to speak first. I think that that is a primary issue that we actually have to look at, how to do question and answer (periods). And we can start today,” says Saint Mary’s University management professor Judy Haiven.

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She thinks that should apply in the classroom, as well.

Haiven was speaking at a “Forum on Misogyny” at Dalhousie University.

She says the best way to combat misogyny is to boost female participation in events.

“Her idea that women should always speak first in classroom discussions and at public events was brought up several times during the forum,” UNews reports.

The news site reports the professor’s rule “was met with applause.”

Jude Ashburn one-upped Haiven.

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“I think that women of color should speak first in class,” Ashburn said after the panel discussion.

“When I do activist circles or workshops, I often say, ‘OK, if you’re white and you look like me and you raise your hand, I’m not going to pick on you before someone of color.’ So I do give little disclaimers, like people of color will have priority, or if you’re a person with a disability, you’re pushed to the front … I mean, you know, bros fall back,” Ashburn – who identifies herself as a “non binary trans person” – tells the news outlet.

Not all people warmed up to the professor’s gender discrimination. One person wondered whether the rule would actually “perpetuate the problem the other way?”

“Yes, I suppose at some point that could happen,” Haiven responded.

“But right now what we see is … women generally don’t come forward and speak up at meetings … we see women taking a backseat.

“We see that there has to be some kind of affirmative action so that women, I hope, take a more active role in the classroom, in running things, in various student affairs. We’ve got a real problem.”

The speakers acknowledged that more women are graduating from college than ever before and often make up a majority of a class “yet you wouldn’t know that” because men supposedly dominate the speaking time.