By Kyle Philibert on December 15, 2011
Engineers Canada Enrolment and Degrees Awarded publication for the years 2006-2010 is now accessible online. Engineers Canada gathers and prepares these statistics on enrolment and degrees awarded each academic year. This year’s report includes a section on the theme of “Gender Visibility”. Please follow the link below to access the report online: http://www.engineerscanada.ca/e/pu_enrolment.cfm
By Jonathan Leung on December 13, 2011
In honor of women who are 2011’s top leaders and achievers in the public, private and non-profit sector , The Women Executive Network presents Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 awards. This year’s recipients include Frieda Granot, senior associate dean of strategic development and external relations for the Sauder School of Business at UBC. She […]
By Jonathan Leung on December 12, 2011
This program is run by Claire A Simpkins from Tekara Organizational Effectiveness Inc. It is targeted towards emerging professional women leader and runs over a 9-month period.The next cohort will starting late January 2012. Every month, participants will be involved in a 3-hour learning session with the group. In between these sessions, they will receive […]
By Jonathan Leung on December 12, 2011
Engineers Canada Enrolment and Degrees Awarded publication for the years 2006-2010 is now accessible online. Engineers Canada gathers and prepares these statistics on enrolment and degrees awarded each academic year. This year’s report includes a section on the theme of “Gender Visibility”. Please follow the link below to access the report online: http://www.engineerscanada.ca/e/pu_enrolment.cfm
By Jonathan Leung on December 9, 2011
The PowerPoint presentation of a WEPAN webinar held in November about “Stemming the Tides”, a study conducted on why women leave engineering, is available for download on the WEPAN website. The link can be found here The full report can be found on our website under Research & Recommended Readings, Careers
By Jonathan Leung on December 8, 2011
A survey commissioned by Intel Corporation shows that teenagers do not know what engineers do. After they had been exposed to what engineers do and how much money they make, more than 50 percent of teens showed interest in the career. Articles by The Oregonian, VentureBeat and Portland Business Journal, have more information about survey […]
By Jonathan Leung on November 30, 2011
An article in The Huffington Post by Barbara Hannah Grufferman explores gender schema and the reasons why very few women occupy positions of power Please click here for the full article.
By Jonathan Leung on November 30, 2011
Purdue University’s College of Engineering reported a 31% increase of first-year female engineering enrollment in 2011/2012 compared the 2010/2011 year. The director of the college’s Women in Engineering Program (WIEP), Beth Holloway, indicates one factor that likely caused the increase was how Purdue’s faculty, staff and students talked about engineering to high school students. To […]
By Jonathan Leung on November 28, 2011
On December 6, 1989, an armed man walked into an engineering class at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal. After forcing the men to leave, he stated that he hated feminists. He started shooting the women in the class, then beyond it. At the end of his killing rampage, he shot himself. Attend this memorial for the […]
By Kyle Philibert on November 17, 2011
Save the date for the next Women in Energy Leader Luncheon combined with the BC Women in Energy Network AGM on February 9, 2012! Speaker and venue information will be released shortly. Nominations for the new BCWEN board of directors will be accepted. Information about the BC Women in Energy Network can be found online […]
