Immigrant Women in STEM

The Smoko Podcast: CCWESTT Live Interview with Keynote Speaker Caroline Mekodom This special episode is brought to you by CCWESTT, the Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades, and Technology, and features a live interview with Caroline Mekodom at CCWESTT’s biennial conference: Charting a Course, Navigating Systemic Change held this past May in Victoria, British […]

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 […]

Video – AWSN member spotlight: Immigrant & International Women in Science Network

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Video – AWSN member spotlight: Immigrant & International Women in Science Network For our first member spotlight we are highlighting The Immigrant & International Women in Science Network. IWS is driven by the committed volunteer work of a fantastic group of women with scientific backgrounds currently active in industry, academia, and government. IWS Network is […]

Dismantling Bias in Engineering and Geoscience

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Dismantling Bias in Engineering and Geoscience As a response to the petitions sent from the Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba Dear 2030 marketing campaign in Spring 2018, multiple organisations came together to address gendered barriers to recruitment, retention, and equity in the profession, resulting in the creation of the Manitoba 2030 Coalition. Since November 2018, the Manitoba […]

Video – We were here all along: Canada’s failed promise to immigrant women in STEM

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Video – We were here all along: Canada’s failed promise to immigrant women in STEM We Were Here All Along is based on the stories of 74 immigrant women across 13 provinces and territories that informed TGC’s 2020 report Workfinding and Immigrant Women’s Prosperity in STEM. This film is part of our commitment to collaborating […]

Workfinding and Immigrant Women’s Prosperity in STEM: A Pan-Canadian Report by TechGirls Canada

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Workfinding and Immigrant Women’s Prosperity in STEM: A Pan-Canadian Report by TechGirls Canada The results of this study challenge many persistent stereotypes of how Canadian institutions and the general cultural imaginary perceive immigrant women, and serve to illustrate the necessity of linking Canada’s goals to establish a sustainable and competitive innovation economy, the workfinding experiences […]