This “What We Heard” report highlights the results of online focus groups with immigrant and racialized women and young women from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), held between July 8 and August 18, 2022. Achēv’s Women, Employment and Newcomer Services collaborated with a social enterprise, SEASONOVA, with women facilitators with lived experiences as racialized immigrants. In collaboration, Achēv and SEASONOVA developed and facilitated 16 virtual focus group sessions where 119 immigrant and racialized women and youth from the GTA discussed employment barriers they encountered whilst pursuing entry to Canadian workforce, including the additional challenges of the global pandemic. The participants also shared recommendations on how to address these barriers.
Credit: Prepared for Achēv’s Advancing Equity for Immigrant and Racialized Women and Girls Project Prepared by Jhoanna Gonzales Miners, Uduak Mackenzie, Ashley Landers and Abigail Isaac from SEASONOVA Group Inc.
Date: 2023
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.
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