Resources – CCWESTT

Scaling Deep to Make Space for Females in Trades: Transformational Inclusion at a Community College The authors use the skilled trades shortage as a unique context to pilot transformative approaches to changing culture and practice around equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in recruitment, progression, and retention of previously-excluded student groups, focusing on gender. To demonstrate […]

Advancing gender equality in Alberta: A critical strategy to prevent gender-based violence

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Advancing gender equality in Alberta: A critical strategy to prevent gender-based violence This report is part of a series of research policy briefs aimed at informing the Alberta Primary Prevention Framework Policy Collaborative on strategies and actions to prevent domestic and sexual violence. Specifically, this report focuses on advancing gender equality as a primary prevention […]

Women’s Equality in Canada An Environmental Scan

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Women’s Equality in Canada An Environmental Scan The Gender Equality Network Canada (GENC) Environmental Scan provides an overview of work on the development of gender equality in Canada over the last fifteen years. Credit: Gender Equality Network Canada Date: 20218 For more information on this resource click here. View

Engineering Success in STEM Resource Hub

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Engineering Success in STEM Resource Hub Resource Hub – Engineering Sucess in STEM. The projects – Applying two decades of research, our team tests interventions that harness the power of positive social interactions to reduce the effects of implicit gender bias. These interventions target the distinct obstacles that are unique to each step along the […]

Video – Shadow Work

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Video – Shadow Work CCWESTT launched our shadow work video on January 16, 2025 to share the need to bring shadow work ‘out of the shadows.’ Shadow Work (noun) – tasks that are not part of an employee’s official job description but are necessary for the organisation to function and may be unpaid and unseen. […]

Bystanders to Bias: Witnessing Gendered Microaggressions Affects Men’s and Women’s Outcomes in STEM Small Group Contexts

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Bystanders to Bias: Witnessing Gendered Microaggressions Affects Men’s and Women’s Outcomes in STEM Small Group Contexts The research tested whether merely witnessing gendered microaggressions affects group work experiences among male and female undergraduate computer science and engineering students. Credit: Nadia Vossoughi, Logan C. Burley, Ryan P. Foley, Lorelle A. Meadows, and Denise Sekaquaptewa Date: 2024 […]

Powering UP: Preparing Canada’s skilled trades for a post-pandemic economy

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| Resources, Women in Trades

Powering UP: Preparing Canada’s skilled trades for a post-pandemic economy This RBC report was developed within our Humans Wanted research program. It is informed by a series of roundtables and interviews with skilled trades workers, employers, educators, and industry leaders beginning in early 2020. It leverages findings from an analysis of specific trades using the […]

Women in Engineering and STEM: A Review of the 2024 Literature (US focused)

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Women in Engineering and STEM: A Review of the 2024 Literature (US focused) An analysis of the social science literature published in 2024 on women in STEM highlights the persistent influence of systemic barriers on our ability to develop a strong STEM workforce that represents the full range of potential talent worldwide. This review describes […]

State of Girls and Women in STEM

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State of Girls and Women in STEM Created annually by NGCP, this resource presents a high-level summary of the most compelling statistics and research on the state of girls and women in STEM, focused on K-12 Education, Higher Education, and the STEM Workforce. Credit: National Girls Collaboration Project Date: 2025 For more information on this […]

Women and the Mine of the Future

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Women and the Mine of the Future To help address widespread data and knowledge gaps, the Women and the Mine of the Future: Global Report uncovers the gender-disaggregated employment profile for large-scale mining in 12 nations, focusing on women and their occupations in the sector. The report begins with a cross-country analysis that compares the […]