Grants and Contributions:

Addressing systemic barriers to women returning and advancing in the post-pandemic workplace

AB21705

$400,000.00

Oct 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) will achieve this by assessing key chokepoints limiting the full participation of women in the profession, test strategies to address biggest hindrances for underrepresented groups, develop a tested resource bank for engaging, retaining, and meaningfully including women in the workforce. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by seeking to alter, reorient or connect the elements of a system in order to accelerate systemic change. APEGA will work closely with industry professionals and diversity & inclusion experts. They will engage their 75,000 members and 4,500 employer members throughout the project and the final recommendations will be shared nationally by Engineers Canada.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Women and stakeholders have access to supports to address issues relating to equality between women and men.

Edmonton, Alberta, CA T6J 4A2

001-2021-2022-Q3-00012

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Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)

Women's Program

The purpose of the Women’s Program is to advance equality for women in Canada by working to address or remove systemic barriers impeding women’s progress and advancement. The WP supports the Government of Canada’s goal of advancing gender equality in Canada. It is consistent with Government of Canada priorities related to economic prosperity, and supports Canada’s international commitments related to gender equality.