This report summarizes the findings and strategic frameworks from a hosted forum focused on advancing gender equity in Science, Engineering, Trades, and Technology (SETT). The document advocates for a shift from individual interventions to "systems change," emphasizing that true progress requires dismantling structural biases rather than simply helping individuals navigate them. It outlines five core leadership skills—collaboration, evaluating impact, innovation, collective leadership, and engagement—while warning against "snapbacks," or the tendency for organizations to revert to old norms. Ultimately, the report serves as a strategic roadmap for driving deep, lasting transformation in workplace practices and national policy to ensure marginalized groups no longer have to "beat the odds" to succeed.
Credit: CCWESTT
Date: 2025
CCWESTT acknowledges that our greater science, engineering, trades and technology (or SETT) community is situated on the ceded and unceded traditional territories of First Nation, Inuit, and Métis peoples from coast to coast to coast in what is known as ‘Canada’. CCWESTT fervently believes SETT is enriched through collective relations and knowledge sharing and is committed to helping enhance and build these relations. Full land acknowledgement here.