November 2022 – Page 4

Video – Engaging Men as Allies for Gender Equality Ray Arata, Founder of The Better Man Conference & Co-Founder of The Gender Leadership Group shares his experience of developing his own healthy masculinity and the work that he is doing to engage men and women in partnering to support gender equality. Ray shares what he […]

Video – Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace

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| Allyship, Resources

Video – Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace Gender-in-the-workplace experts David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson discuss their book – Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace and show that men have a crucial role to play in promoting gender equality […]

Action Plan to Deliver the Construction Skills Strategy

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Action Plan to Deliver the Construction Skills Strategy New Zealand Action Plan to deliver a Construction Skills Strategy. Credit: Cabinet Economic Development Committee – New Zealand Government Date: 2018 View

Pacific Employment Action Plan

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Pacific Employment Action Plan The Action Plan weave in and uplifts diverse Pacific knowledge systems and ways of being will enrich Government and non-Government organisations to better deliver for Pacific people. The Action Plan will also contribute to nurturing a space for Pacific people in the labour market that is higher-trust, more participatory, and supportive […]

Video – Cassie Myra, Irving Worker

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Video – Cassie Myra, Irving Worker Cassie Myra, an apprentice electrician working for Irving at the Halifax shipyard, discusses how she got involved with the trades, at a time when she was a mother with a young baby. Her career pays very well and provides a great quality of life for her family. She speaks […]

Video – Technology Needs Women

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Video – Technology Needs Women Mona Badie, Chief Information Officer and Chief Digital Officer for GE Hitachi Nuclear, a $1 billion global business, and has a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. In this presentation, she advocates for having more women in STEM fields. She gives many examples of what happens unintentionally, when the […]

Video – Women in Technology: through the eyes of my daughter

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Video – Women in Technology: through the eyes of my daughter Mark MacNaughton, an Information Technology leader, viewed the lack of women leaders in science and technology-related fields as a simple math problem. A kitchen table conversation with his daughter made him realize that the math problem wasn’t the main problem he needed to solve. […]

Video – What it Takes to be a Woman in STEM

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Video – What it Takes to be a Woman in STEM Fatima Alkaabi is currently a rising senior college student majoring in computer engineering at Virginia Tech in the U.S.A. Fatima was recognized as the Youngest Emirati Inventor in 2015. She has a passion for creativity and innovation since she was 7-years-old. She was able […]

Video – Sharing Her Stories: Women in STEM

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Video – Sharing Her Stories: Women in STEM This video is a recording of a panel discussion with three women who are trailblazers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) in Canada. Valerie Overend, a Red Seal carpenter, is an advocate and encourages young women and girls to pursue non-conventional career paths. […]

Workfinding and Immigrant Women’s Prosperity in STEM

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Workfinding and Immigrant Women’s Prosperity in STEM This benchmark pan-Canadian study uses qualitative and participatory approaches to examine the work finding experiences of highly-skilled immigrant women as a way to deconstruct mainstream ‘explanations’ and rhetorics informing the increasingly narrow economic focus of Canada’s immigration policies. Along the way, the impact of austerity-led devolution of publicly-funded […]