Investing in Recovery: Strengthening Employer and Policy Roles in Labour Market Integration of Canada’s Immigrant Women in STEM

The goal of our project titled Investing in Recovery: Strengthening Employer and Policy Roles in Labour Market Integration of Canada’s Immigrant Women in STEM will be to produce new research rooted in a power analysis around the specific challenges that Canada’s immigrant women in STEM face, including the perspective of STEM employers on the opportunity costs for their growth if these barriers are not addressed (particularly in a time of pandemic recovery) as well as exploring and documenting the various kinds of support employers may need in order to sustainably improve the labour market outcomes of highly-skilled immigrant women in STEM. The strategic partnership between University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information and TechGirls Canada aims to produce research that is relevant and actionable, while inspiring the stakeholders to envision more equitable and economically just alternative futures in this fiercely competitive global environment.

Faculty Supervisor:

Nadia Caidi

Student:

Elizabeth Kalbfleisch

Partner:

Scotiabank

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto